[GRLUG] Thinking of app servers

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 15:11 -0500, Ben DeMott wrote:
> X was designed, so applications could run on remote servers, and be
> interacted with graphically on a local client.
> The whole thing is a huge mess...

I disagree.  I see a mess nowhere.  There are clear lines of delineation
between components.

> You should be able to attach and run programs on a remote X Server.

That makes no sense.  There is no "remote X server".  The server is
local;  that is the design of X.  The service provided by the server is
display.

> Have the X information piped to an X client and then have Gnome
> attached to the local X client.
> This doesn't however work in my limited experience.
> This is the closest you can get:
> http://mohanjith.net/blog/2008/01/using-gnome-remotely-via-ssh.html

I'm not sure what his issue is (and the post is a year old).  But....

awilliam at linux-yu4c:~> ssh -X adam at workhorse.cis.mormail.com
Last login: Fri Oct  9 11:54:33 2009 from
fdb5:60da:9b8a:1:219:d2ff:fe42:66b6
Have a lot of fun...
adam at workhorse:~> evolution

Boom!  There is evolution.  I'm not sure what you are saying doesn't
work.  Automatically started are:  dbus, gconfd,
bonobo-activation-framework, evolution-data-server, gvfs-fuse-daemon,
gnome-keyring-daemon, etc...


adam at workhorse:~> ps -u adam
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
11455 ?        00:00:00 sshd
11456 pts/2    00:00:00 bash
11499 pts/2    00:00:58 evolution.bin
11503 pts/2    00:00:00 dbus-launch
11504 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
11506 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2
11508 ?        00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
11512 ?        00:00:00 bonobo-activati
11518 ?        00:00:00 evolution-data-
11540 ?        00:00:00 evolution-alarm
11601 ?        00:00:00 notification-da
11604 ?        00:00:00 gvfsd
11610 ?        00:00:00 gvfs-fuse-daemo
11623 pts/2    00:00:00 ps