Start Gnome-Application from SSH-Shell

Question

my development server has a running Gnome-Desktop. I am connected to it by a ssh session. The Gnome-Session and the ssh session are running with the same user.

How to I start a Gnome-application (for example gedit) from the ssh remote session so that it appears on the remote servers Gnome-Desktop?

Thanks a lot, Hacksteak25

Bill Lynch · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-08 02:21:51Z

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This would probably work:

Tcsh:

setenv DISPLAY :0
gedit

Bash:

export DISPLAY=:0
gedit

If you are not the user that is logged into the Gnome session, then you would need to do xhost + to disable the authentication.

If the above doesn't work, then instead of :0, try simply copying the DISPLAY environment variable to the ssh terminal.

answered Sep 8, 2010 at 2:21

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Phillip Whelan Over a year ago

Some programs that use DBUS may not work correctly. I tried this with banshee and it segfaulted when it could not resolve a .service with the display manager.

user3076105 · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-10 19:12:09Z

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To support DBUS messaging, use:

ssh -Y remoteuser@remotehost dbus-launch -f gedit

The "-f" option starts the remote GUI application on the local desktop and returns, leaving the local terminal available for the next command.

answered Jun 10, 2019 at 19:12

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