Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Bob McGowan
On 4/28/20 8:46 AM, Steve Keller wrote: What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, i.e. xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 28 avr. 2020 à 21:04 de russ...@rlharris.org: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > >> What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see two ways: >> > Do not overlook the marvelous package "screen". > Or even better: tmux :) Best regards, l0f4r0

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see two ways: Do not overlook the marvelous package "screen".

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Apr 2020 at 13:43:16 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 28, 2020, Steve Keller wrote: > > What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: > > Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in > > that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Apr 2020 at 19:09:48 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Steve Keller wrote: > > > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm -ls > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I would absolutely prefer the first one, unless you have a specific > > reason to use the latter > > I agree. But why the -X i

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 28, 2020, Steve Keller wrote: > What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: > Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in > that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, > i.e. > > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve Keller wrote: > > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm -ls Greg Wooledge wrote: > I would absolutely prefer the first one, unless you have a specific > reason to use the latter I agree. But why the -X in the first one ? Is there more desired than a shell session ? Have a n

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm -ls > > What are pros and cons? I see one: The latter will produce more > overhead as it runs the X11 protocol through the ssh tunnel. I would absolutely prefer the first one, unless y

Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Steve Keller
What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, i.e. xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm -ls What are pros and cons? I see one: Th