[winswitch] Winswitch server on a headless system?

Antoine Martin totaam at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 04:31:46 GMT 2013


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Troy Cauble <troycauble at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'd like to have a "one-click" approach for others who would like to run
> the remote test apps, but don't (and shouldn't) know a thing about ssh or
> X11.  I'd like it to be as easy as launching a local program, or opening a
> web page from a shortcut.
>
> Personally, I prefer using just xpra instead of winswitch.  I have a
> small number of shell scripts like the one below, with the three
> initial settings changed.  My client is OSX, my server Ubuntu.
>

FYI: there are OSX Xpra DMGs now, these are kept more up to date than the
winswitch one you seem to be using.
http://xpra.org/dists/osx/x86/

Antoine


>
> -troy
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> RDISPLAY=111
> RAPP=calibre
> RHOST=myhome.no-ip.com
>
> ROUT=`basename $RAPP`.out
>
> ssh $RHOST xpra -d all start :$RDISPLAY --start-child="$RAPP"
> --exit-with-children
>
> cd /
> /Applications/Window-Switch.app/Contents/Helpers/xpra -d all attach
> ssh:$RHOST:$RDISPLAY > $HOME/.xpra/client.$RDISPLAY.output 2>&1
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