On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:03, Scot L. Harris wrote: > I took that one step further. I created a script that lives on the > system where evolution runs. In this script I have: > > #!/bin/bash > evolution --force-shutdown > evolution > > > On the remote system, this case my laptop, that I want to run evolution > remotely from I created a launcher that has in the command line: > > ssh -Y user@remotehost /home/username/startevolution > > Make sure run in terminal is NOT selected in the launcher. > > Then just click on the launcher and you get a nice requester for the ssh > password then it runs the script over the ssh connection. In this case > it makes sure no other version of evolution is running then it starts > evolution for you. ssh sends the display window back to your laptop or > remote system. > > This comes in handy for many things that you want to run on a remote > system. Another cute trick is to drag off the gnome menu items that you'd like to run remotely so they become desktop launchers, then run nautilus remotely. When you double-click any of the icons they'll pop open a new window. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
