The first time I powered up the Raspberry Pi I attached to it the USB Keyboard, the USB mouse and the 19 inch monitor that I normally use with my PC.
These objects worked fine with the Raspberry, but the problem is the following (money, money, money)
I don't want to buy additional hardware to work with the RAspberry and the PC at the same time, you know the first three reasons (money, money, money) the last but not least reason is that I have a small house and I haven't enough room for the new hardware.
The solution come from the Xserver, it provides the capability to remotize your system…..
"X is an architecture-independent system for remote graphical user interfaces and rich input device capabilities which allows many people to share the processing power of a time-sharing computer and to collaborate with each other through client applications running on remote computers. Each person using a networked terminal has the ability to interact with the display with any type of user input device. Due to the ubiquity of support for X software on Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, X is commonly used to run client applications on personal computers even when there is no need for time-sharing." Wikipedia
In this short tutorial I'm using the X included with cygwin for windows, but the 90% of the steps should work fine also on Linux and Mac OS X.
First open a cygwin terminal
make sure teh .xinitrc file doesn't exec any window manager and that it launches at least one xterm (see the above picture), then run the xinit.exe application, if all is working fine you should see something like the following picture
Issue the xhost.exe command
bash-3.2$ xhost.exe +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
bash-3.2$
Now login in your Raspberry Pi using ssh (change <raspberry ip address> with the address you gave to your Raspberry Pi)
bash-3.2$ ssh -l pi <raspberry ip address>
After you have logged into the Raspberry, run the following commands:
# sudo -s
# export DISPLAY=<your PC address>:0.0
Last, try to run a graphic application, for example xeyes
# xeyes &
You should see two eyes following your mouse pointer !!
to have the full GUI of your Raspberry Pi working, simply issue the following command:
# lxsession &
It's fantastic!!
Gg1
Your method certainly works, and for years it was the standard way of providing an X server to X clients on a remote host. However, it is both simpler, faster, and more secure to use an X tunnel in an ssh login. Simply use the '-X' option on the ssh client command, and all X traffic will be seamlessly tunneled through the SSL connection, and will be both encrypted and compressed. It will leave your X server un-exposed to arbitrary remote traffic, and will eliminated the need to set $DISPLAY on the X client host.