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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 1

You can do X11 forwarding with ssh. If you start an ssh session with -Y or -X it'll enable X11 forwarding. So, any program you run in that session that creates a window, the window will be drawn locally. You can also pass ssh a command to run :

$ ssh -Y user@$some_ip /path/to/some/remote/python_script.py

If you want a full gui session, then you'll want to setup an RDP or VNC server on the rasp pi and connect to it with some client.

Answer 2

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