On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:36 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:07, Scot L. Harris wrote:
open in new windows on your display. What I want is just the menu button, though. If it had a name, I'd expect to be able to 'ssh -Y remote_machine gnome-menu' or something like that and get a working remote menu.
So do what I did with evolution. Create a script on the remote machine something like:
I think you are missing the point of what I want. I want to install a new remote machine and have all of it's programs available from my desktop without knowing ahead of time what is actually installed there. If a new program is installed on that machine, I want it to show up in the remotely-executed menu like it does if you log in there. X is designed to let anything run remotely. I don't see why the menu button should be an exception - someone would really have to go out of their way to break it - but I don't know how to invoke it by itself.
I have not tested this, buy you could try running gnome-panel on the remote machine. I am not sure if it will try and take over your desktop. The other thing you can do is to run Xnest, and launch the windows manager inside the Xnest window. It will give you a complete remote desktop inside the window. (This requires a fast connection between the two computers.
Someone elst already said you can use vncviewer for this.
Mikkel
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