Friday, July 03, 2020

Re: ssh X forwarding and google-chrome

On 2020-07-02, Paul de Weerd <weerd@weirdnet.nl> wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
>
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 05:33:20PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
>| Hello, everybody
>|
>| does anybody know if there is any tricks?
>|
>| In my office pc (currently linux) I have google-chrome installed,
>| and I absolutely need to access it from home.
>|
>| "ssh -Y <work pc> google-chrome" just shows an empty and blank
>| window, no menu, no address bar.
>| May be there is some command line flags I am not aware of?
>
> If you absolutely must access something on one machine and ssh
> forwarding doesn't work, you could look at VNC-solutions such as
> x11vnc (available as a package on OpenBSD, probably also on your linux
> distro of choice).


I strongly recommend using tigervnc instead of x11vnc, it works pretty nicely.

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