Remote Set Up of Evolution

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:03, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> I took that one step further.  I created a script that lives on the
> system where evolution runs.  In this script I have:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> evolution --force-shutdown
> evolution
> 
> 
> On the remote system, this case my laptop, that I want to run evolution
> remotely from I created a launcher that has in the command line:
> 
> ssh -Y user at remotehost /home/username/startevolution
> 
> Make sure run in terminal is NOT selected in the launcher.
> 
> Then just click on the launcher and you get a nice requester for the ssh
> password then it runs the script over the ssh connection.  In this case
> it makes sure no other version of evolution is running then it starts
> evolution for you.  ssh sends the display window back to your laptop or
> remote system.
> 
> This comes in handy for many things that you want to run on a remote
> system.

Another cute trick is to drag off the gnome menu items that you'd
like to run remotely so they become desktop launchers, then
run nautilus remotely.  When you double-click any of the icons
they'll pop open a new window.

-- 
 Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com