Remote execution of a program

[NoOp]

On 09/12/2009 09:28 AM, Joseph Loo wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
...
>> A VNC session?  Don't I need to be running a gui session on the remote
>> for that to work?
>>
...
> You need to run a gui, but you can also run with a standard X11 session.
> I believe you mentioned that you wanted to have a GUI program running.
> The only way I know is to start it on the remote server and interface it
> with a VNC session. If you drop your connection, the session will still
> be running and you can reattach to it anytime you want. I was doing that
> when I wanted to have a low end machine run a bit torrent client that
> will take weeks to complete. I would use the VNC to start it and look at
> its progress. Once I did that I could log off my local machine or turn
> it off but the remote process would still be running.
> 

If you are using 9.04 or 9.10 just be sure to turn off compiz on both
systems first:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126
[Compiz / vnc screen refresh with nvidia-restricted
driver/VirtualBox/ATI fglrx driver]