on 16:50 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) wrote: > On 3/3/2011 4:36 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > >>>> Instead of running screen, can you run a desktop session under > >>>> freenx on a server > > > >>> No xlibs on our servers. > >> > >> You need _a_ machine somewhere that can host a freenx session. It > >> doesn't need to be the target of the ssh connections, just something > >> that will mostly stay powered up if you want the session to stay active > >> all the time. A development box or even a VM session that would work - > >> or a desktop machine if it stays on all the time. It doesn't even have > >> to run X on its own console. > > > > Frankly, given the alternative ease of automatically redefining $TERM, > > that strikes me as a slightly overengineered solution. > > > > Not that I'm intrinsically opposed to overengineering. > > Don't knock it until you've tried it. A full GUI desktop, even mostly > hosting a bunch of terminal windows is a lot more comfortable place to > work than a screen session I use screen *very* extensively, including locally. It works quite well. I run Linux locally, not just remotely. > and mousable cut/paste that works even with the local OS running the > NX client is extremely handy I've got that natively via X11. > (how many times do you do the same command on several machines?). for host in <list>; do ssh $host 'commands'; done dsh hostgroup 'commands' > I almost never log in directly at a linux console anymore and if I > need to do something from home or remotely, I just pick the session > that was my last desktop at work. What's your desktop system? I'm living in X11 on a laptop with good suspend/restore. A new terminal is hotkeyed, so no mousing around to get that. If I'm on a host frequently I'll generally have a screen session or several running there. Few if any remote clients have any X support. Works pretty well for me. There's no win (in this case) for freenx. I meant to note earlier: the upstream NX developers have gone non-free, no? Is there a free software development branch? -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell!