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StartX through network?

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:47 pm
by manhi40
I have a raspberry pi, sitting on my desk, (running wheezy), I don't want to keep having to plug/unplug hdmi/usb cables to use startx. Anyway I can open my pi's display onto my desktop?

Re: StartX through network?

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 2:11 am
by SirLagz
You can use VNC
or
you can use X Forwarding so that the application shows up on your normal desktop.
ssh -X pi@raspberrypi
login, then when you run an X application, the application will show up on your desktop, assuming you're using Linux on your desktop

Re: StartX through network?

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 5:54 am
by manhi40
Thanks!

Re: StartX through network?

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 2:27 pm
by klricks
Another option is Remote Desktop (RDP)
You install XRDP on you RPi and run a (free) remote desktop client on you PC.

sudo apt-get install xrdp

This is how set up RDP:
http://64.13.91.137:86/Comp/RPi/RDP.html

Re: StartX through network?

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 4:55 pm
by manhi40
Vnc is working flawlessly, but I will definitely give rdp a try