`<div dir="ltr">A few things that might help you our<div><br></div><div>1) this is not in core by design.</div><div style>2) using a browser remotely sounds painful... try ssh options to either forward a port (-L) or act as a SOCKS proxy (-D) both *super* useful.</div>
<div style>3) this does not solve your "I can only manage an HBA with a Java GUI issue"... you should burn that vendor's offices down*.</div><div style>4) There are people using Joyent's pkgsrc work to build X libs.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>* please don't actually burn anything down, just vote with your budget and buy products that don't suffer this way</div><div style><br></div><div style>What I'd really love to see is someone start a desktop IPS repo on top of OmniOS. Build X11 stuff and publish it there. Once that happens, the whole community can benefit. Another awesome option that would likely be much more fruitful would be to hack pkgsrc to publish IPS artifacts. That said, I have no desire to build or maintain anything related to X11, so it shan't be me that does it.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Best regards,</div><div style><br></div><div style>Theo</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Marion Hakanson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hakansom@ohsu.edu" target="_blank">hakansom@ohsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Greetings,<br>
<br>
We often use X11 tunnelling over SSH connections in order to run various<br>
X11 applications on remote servers. An example might be to run a web<br>
browser on such a server in order to access the management functions<br>
of an appliance in the datacenter, or maybe a vendor-supplied Java GUI<br>
app to manage a component, perhaps a RAID HBA. Yes, we generally can<br>
find a command-line tool for accomplishing most of these tasks, but<br>
it's not always feasible.<br>
<br>
I've been looking at OmniOS for a role in our datacenter environment, and<br>
it looks to me like out of the box, OmniOS cannot host such applications.<br>
I didn't find any X client shared libraries in the IPS repo, for example.<br>
<br>
Before I head off to solve this problem on my own, I thought I'd ask:<br>
Is anyone already using OmniOS to run X11 apps in this manner (displaying<br>
to a remote X server), and if so, how do you accomplish it?<br>
<br>
Thanks and regards,<br>
<br>
Marion<br>
<br>
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<p>Theo Schlossnagle</p>
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