From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Pull gui emacs across an ssh connection Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:33:03 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239417650 22262 80.91.229.12 (11 Apr 2009 02:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 11 04:42:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LsTAW-0001Mr-J6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LsT98-0003P3-5n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!motzarella.org!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18nanL20a1Z/13hFR7RAfeiqa12/XSzRlnNp1OOTUtToKQ5rIAnYH7ivSFHQ3jihyHW9lvxBBzsfXGn9CBwuZNKwdghbc+aiKf7ZmfsrO+/a2e310sijvrYB2Qr/tK4Osnpwi5VKTVT0A== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:32:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+1TqcOGh9PlQ/J/AbcGs9iMakcZ2Ce7eQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:K2yDIBaGeQPD4Ann0uTTlk8b7TY= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168374 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63653 Archived-At: In article , Harry Putnam 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. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***