[YLUG] ssh to York

[Chunky Kibbles]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:24:03PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >I'd have to say, I do find this to be more of a "bug" than a
> >"feature".  I find my SSH sessions regularly freezing, because
> >I do tend to do non-computer work and come back to find it's
> >frozen up.  SSH doesn't even recognise that it has been
> >disconnected for quite some time, leaving the terminal unusable.
> >This happens to me quite a lot throughout the day; if I hadn't
> >discovered GNU screen, I'd be rather miffed by now!

It always amazes me how little screen gets used. It manages to
simultaneously create and kill an entire software category, glorious
stuff.

> I never really experience a freezing of the terminal, just a freezing of
> my interface before it just goes away because the lost of the connection.
> Unfortunately, I need a X session, is their an equivalent of
> screen for a X session ?

Commonly known as vnc.

I've been using nomachine's NX at work, and that's much better than vnc,
but requires administrative voodoo on the server - you can run a vncserver
without any problem at all.

Gary (-;