Hi there,
I would like to install fluxbox on a ubuntu virtual server over SSH, so that i can login to the Flux box GUI remotley.
Looking for a good tutorial for this if any one knows of one.
Cheers Makin
does this help?
WARNING: I have never tried this, so you attempt it at your own risk.
found an offshoot from the link you provided and discovered that version 1.0 of flux box has remote login feature built in. fluxbox.org - download
Just hunting for ssh install tutorial of fluxbox now.
Cheers for the help Makin.
Question :: why do you want to “log in” remotely?
If you edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config on your workstation and set the beginning of the file to look like this;
Host * ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes ForwardX11Trusted yes
Then SSH to your VPS, you will be able to run X apps and the display will appear on your workstation … was this what you were after … ??
I remote access my linux server from a windows box. The server in question is an ubnutu virtual server. AS to my current knowledge i expected i would need to remote login to the server in some way to get the desired out come i wished.
Just to clear some thing up as i didnt mention this earlier. The Virtual server is in a data center not on my local network.
Take a look at:
http://www.linux-tip.net/cms/content/view/302/26/
And in particular, the lines -
Step 3: Using a Windows client
“You will need an X display server for your Windows machine, such as Cygwin/X, X-Win32, Exceed or X-Deep/32”
Ok,
Step 1. Install the Gnome desktop on your virtual server.
apt-get install gnome-session
Step 2. Install the free version of “nx” on your server, all three components, client, server and node.
Download from here; http://www.nomachine.com/select-package.php?os=linux&id=1
Step 3. Install “nx” client on your workstation.
Step 4. Install Applications → Internet → NX Client → NX Connection Wizard
…
Thanks for this guys,
il play with this tonight appreciate all of the help.
hi guys so trying to get this working on the new server and its throwing out this error at me any ideas:
$ startfluxbox
xmodmap: unable to open file ‘/home/makin/.Xmodmap’ for reading
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
Failed to load database:/home/makin/.fluxbox/init
Retrying with: /etc/X11/fluxbox/init
Failed to read: session.ignoreBorder
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.forcePseudoTransparency
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.colorsPerChannel
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.doubleClickInterval
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.tabPadding
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.styleFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.styleOverlay
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.slitlistFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.appsFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.tabsAttachArea
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.cacheLife
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.cacheMax
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.autoRaiseDelay
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.appsFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.ignoreBorder
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.forcePseudoTransparency
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.colorsPerChannel
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.doubleClickInterval
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.tabPadding
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.styleFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.styleOverlay
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.slitlistFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.appsFileFailed to read: session.appsFile
Setting default value
From that error message, it looks like the system is looking for a file, .Xmodmap, and not finding it. Can you run the following command, and copy the results here?
ls -lah /home/makin/.Xmodmap
As requested this is what is dispalyed after the command is entered.
cannot access .Xmodmap: No such file or directory
/home/makin/:
total 88K
drwxr-xr-x 11 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-11 02:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K 2010-10-09 01:19 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 makin makin 220 2010-08-10 21:47 .bash_logout
-rw-r–r-- 1 makin makin 3.3K 2010-08-10 21:47 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-11 02:50 .cache
drwx------ 3 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-10 23:39 .dbus
drwxr-xr-x 5 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-10 22:43 .fluxbox
drwxr-xr-x 2 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-10 22:43 .fontconfig
drwx------ 3 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-11 02:38 .gconf
drwx------ 2 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-11 02:52 .gconfd
drwxr-xr-x 4 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-11 02:33 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-11 02:33 .gnome2_private
-rw-r–r-- 1 makin makin 561 2010-10-11 01:38 .htoprc
-rw------- 1 root root 318 2010-10-10 23:54 .ICEauthority
drwx------ 4 makin makin 4.0K 2010-10-11 02:34 .mozilla
-rw-r–r-- 1 makin makin 675 2010-08-10 21:47 .profile
-rw------- 1 root root 256 2010-10-10 23:54 .pulse-cookie
-rw------- 1 makin makin 218 2010-10-11 02:09 .recently-used.xbel
-rw-r–r-- 1 makin makin 0 2010-10-09 01:04 .sudo_as_admin_successful
-rw------- 1 root root 617 2010-10-10 23:10 .viminfo
-rw------- 1 makin makin 51 2010-10-11 02:53 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 root root 51 2010-10-10 23:56 .Xauthority.old
-rw------- 1 root root 1.3K 2010-10-10 23:56 .xsession-errors
Q: why are you wanting to use fluxbox?
If you install gnome-session and NX, you can easily run a full Gnome desktop … if you have a half-way decent ADSL connection the speed will look like a local connection for all but multi-media apps …
??
i thought it would be light on resources, fairly simple interface to use and i could seperate my projects in to workspaces. I have been playing with it on a machine in the house and found it easy to work with.
I also have a 20 meg virgin connection.
Speed checked at:
20 meg Down
0.72 meg Up
Seems that xmodmap was replaced by x11-server-utils.
x11-server-utils is running. So i assume that a config file is looking for the wrong info.
ive been in to ~/.fluxbox/startup and tried commenting it out but to no avail.
not sure how to replace it with x11-server-utils
But if any of you know the command line to ad in its place i could give that a go to see if it helps.