Re: Pull gui emacs across an ssh connection

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.5098.1239401875.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

> I know this subject has come up many times but I'm getting confused by
> the google hits more than helped.
> 
> For yrs I've connected to remote machines and ran the on host emacs
> via ssh connection.  Sometime connecting with with emacs to the remote
> host with tramp.  But I've never really tried to make the remote emacs
> run in gui form on the local display..  Just using emacs as -nw when
> using ssh.
> 
> I'm running gentoo linux on a home lan with opensolaris and windows
> hosts present.  What variables need to be in place to run the emacs
> installed on the remote... and make it appear in gui format on my
> local desktop. (I'm not taking about involving windows machines in
> this) 
> 
> I know about permitting X in ssh_config and sshd_config  or even with
> the ssh cmdline -X but as I recall other things need to be adjusted
> too.

As long as $DISPLAY is set in the window where you run ssh, you 
shouldn't need to do anything else.

> And too, is it even worthwhile doing, like is it annoyingly slow or
> something?  I have gigabit lan in most cases and 10/100 is the slowed
> that might come up.  And it is a very low usage lan.

I did it many years ago on 10 Mbps LANs.  It should be perfectly fine on 
modern 100 meg and gigabit LANs.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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