jdd wrote:
This part of my tests are very unexpected. I have right now openSUSE Leap 42.2 on each computers (my desktop and my server). As far as I can tell it's no more necessary to use the "-X" ssh switch to have X11 forwarding activated, so it seems to be as default.
--- FYI - ssh first checks the remote /etc/ssh/sshd_config to see if the remote server defaults to X11 forwarding (X11Forwarding yes), then checks your local "~/.ssh/config" to see if it defaults to allowing it. The "-X" switch is only for ssh's from an ssh you don't have configured yet. I.e. usually I have everything about my ssh session configured in my .ssh/config file so I don't need command line flags.
It's still necessary to use the "--no-remote" option to launch Firefox if you want Firefox to work fully from the server (that is saving files on the sever), else Firefox (typed on the server's terminal window) simply asks for a local (on the desktop) session.
I think the "no-remote" is needed if there is a firefox already running on your desktop. I've never seen FF (or any other program, for that matter, asking for a local session. Might be nice if needing a web-browser on my server launched the one on my desktop, instead of a remote-X FF running on the server.
You can also launch xfce on the server. That is, even with an already running session on the server you can run an other as user. Log with ssh user@serverIP and type startxfce and you will have an xfce session starting on top of your plasma session.
Starting on top of your plasma session? Sounds like you have plasma running on the console, and you are running a different desktop manager for your ssh session. That should be "fine", though if both desktop managers use the same files somewhere, they might overwrite each other. Don't use desktop managers that often.
Last time I tried this (some years ago) doing so made my kde4 session unusable. I didn't really test ising xfce on the server like this for a long time though.
Depends on what you did exactly, but more than likely I'd think it was a bug. Different desktop managers running on different displays shouldn't be trashing each other, IMO...
but as summary, it's no more necessary to use -X with ssh to get X11 forwarding,
Never was if you had it in your ssh config file.
and having xfce on the server and plasma5 on the desktop seems to be usable, xfce works at least some time on top of plasma
On which desktop? Both running on the console?, or one desktop on console and another running on a remote DISPLAY?
is this just me?
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