Access Raspbian wheezy desktop GUI through ssh

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Dale Markowitz picture Dale Markowitz · Mar 29, 2013 · Viewed 19.1k times · Source

I have a Raspberry pi that I have been accessing through SSH, but now I need to run a python program on it that has a GUI. I'm not sure how to do this through SSH. Usually I get to my raspi's desktop gui by typing startx. Is there anything I can do like this over ssh?

Thanks!

Answer

ManuelSchneid3r picture ManuelSchneid3r · Apr 1, 2013

The approach mentioned by kjprice just displays the applications you started on the remote host. If you want to see a complete dektop, you could either create a new Xserver or use Xephyr to nest a Xserver in the one you are currently using.

Well first create a new nested Xserver:

user@host $ Xephyr :1 -screen 800x600 &

A window called "Xephyr on :1" should spawn. Ssh into the remote host an forward the display to the created display:

user@host $ DISPLAY=:1 ssh -Y username@remotehost

Now start a session on the remotehost, in my case LXDE:

user@remotehost $ lxsession

You should now see the desktop in Xephyr. hf

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