Re: [orca-list] ssh (x11)

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

If you can access it over ssh, then sshfs is probably worth having a go 
at. sshfs mounts remote directories as if they were local.

A lot less annoying than scp, especially if you need to access a lot of 
files.


-Jon

On Thu 16/04/2009 at 18:08:01, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:01:07AM +0200, Bohdan R. Rau wrote:
> > > Doesn't work! Which kinda makes sense, I guess you need orca running on
> > > client and server. I have orca running in the shell I was typing this
> > > from. So is there a certain way to get this to work? Or is it not yet
> > > possible for us to access x11 over ssh?
> >
> > Probably it's not possible, but there is very easy way to edit files on
> > distant host.
>
> Well yes, and I tend to prefer the cli for all of this, so it doesn't really
> bother me. Curiosity more than anything. ssh command line works fine
> along with scp, and nfs shares. Of course I can use a text mode editor
> such as emacs to edit stuff, so the gedit was just an example.
>
> > At first, use gnome menu "places" - "connect to server" (or something
> > similar, I have Polish version of Gnome). Select ssh as method, if you need
> > you can create shortcut. After then run gedit locally, select "open" from
> > menu, go to "places" (Alt-P in English locale) and use arrow keys to find
> > your shortcut. You will be able to select and edit files on distant host
>
> Not quite the point, the point was to try and get a program to run
> remotely and work with speech/braille... This works for anything console
> based, but obviously not gui unless someone replies otherwise.
>
> Thx
>
> Daniel.



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