[Mageia-discuss] Remote login

Marc Paré marc at marcpare.com
Sat Mar 31 02:02:12 CEST 2012


Le 2012-03-30 19:37, Jeff Robins a écrit :
> Can you just ssh into the box and run Thunderbird then?  I do that at
> home all of the time.  Sometimes it takes a while for Thunderbird to
> go through all of the messages, but since all of the heavy computing
> is being done on the server, it generally isn't too bad.
>
> If you have to run it continuously then you might want to try 'xpra',
> which seems to be 'screen' for X11 apps.  I've never tried it before
> and only found it when trying to see if screen works with X11 apps.  I
> also have no idea if Mageia has it.
>
> http://xpra.org/
> http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/xpra.1/
>

Sorry I should have added that TBird would be left working on my desktop 
collecting emails (approx. 300/day) and filtering them. I would then 
have to ssh into an already opened programme. I am not sure if this is 
possible with ssh?

Marc



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