KDE Desktop [plug] X forwarding SOLVED

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Craig Ringer wrote:
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> Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
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>> Craig Ringer wrote:
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>>> Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
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>>>> I tried it a different way and it seemed to work.
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>>>> ssh -X $REMOTE_HOST_IP
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>>>> #startkde
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>> Now when I try to do it the screen goes up so I lose my whole screen. 
>> Like it loads the kde off the server and it scrolls the screen up and 
>> I lose everything.
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> 
> Do you mean something like this:
> 
> "I pressed CTL-ALT-F1 to get a console and logged in. I ran 'startkde' 
> and a bunch of text scrolled up the screen, but nothing else happened. 
> The text started with 'blah' and the last few lines were 'blah'. I can 
> provide the full text if requested."
> 
> ?

I pressed CTL-ALT-F1 and it went to console and blurted I didn't even 
have time to type anything.  It was a constant barrage of the same words.

Yeah I can provide the full text since its constant.  Its only two lines 
those ones that I provided before.


> 
> Please try to be more detailed and clear in your descriptions. Remember 
> that the person you're speaking to can not see your screen or your 
> actions, so you must describe _everything_. It is better to describe in 
> too much detail than too little. The better the descriptions and 
> explanations you give, the more chance someone will be able to help you.

I thought I had provided enough info obviously not its hard to explain 
something when you don't know whats important and whats not.  I pasted 
the exact commands I used for that reason.

> 
> Giving better descriptions also improves the chance of somebody spending 
> their time to try to help you instead of deciding you can't be bothered 
> putting the effort in, so neither can they.
I do agree.
> 
> So what happens when you try to just run the X server (run "X :1")? I'm 
> assuming here that you're working from another computer that does not 
> crash when you start a second X server.
> 

On which computer my physical one or the remote one??? Sorry I'm 
confused now.

> You need to confirm that you can start an X server successfully, as I 
> said earlier. There is no point in wasting time trying to get remote 
> stuff working when there is a local problem. Confirm that you can run 
> the X server, and only then try the remote stuff. If you have to run the 
> X server as root, try that but be aware that you may have to do extra 
> work to get ssh's authentication to work.
>

On my local computer being the physical one I'm touching I can run kde 
and all of that fine.  In fact its a debian box and I log straight into 
kdm then use kde3.

On the remote machine I'm assuming I can if I can startkde with a 
separate command apart from the fact that the screen goes up.

>> if I run it on the server after I have ssh'ed into it I get the Pam 
>> error I got before since I didn't know which one you meant I tried 
>> both so as to discount a potential stuff upon my side.
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> 
> "run from existing X session". Perhaps I should've said "Run from an 
> xterm running directly in your current local X session".
> 
> You need to fix your problems with starting an X server before 
> proceeding. Check out your PAM configuration, try running one as root, 
> and do a bit of searching to find out how to get it working on your 
> distro. The same thing goes for running Xnest remotely - try just 
> ssh'ing out and running 'Xnest', make sure that works before trying it 
> with startx.
> 
Yeah unfortunately I think thats where the issue is with pam since I 
can't log in as root to run it although I can if I log in then change to 
root using:

$ su -



One last thing that I've tried and works well sorta works is I ssh into 
the server type the following command as a normal user.
$vncserver
A server then comes up I log in using my local machine using vncviewer 
and then in the xterm I type
$startkde
And kde comes up albeit I'm missing the taskbar at the bottom and things 
like that but it comes up no errors.

So I think I'm missing something really simple if it does work but just 
the methodology of how it works???

Anyways thanks for your help I'll scour around to see if I can solve 
that pam issue since I think that'll be the most amount of headache.

Marc