[squeak-dev] Squeak/Seaside on a no-GUI remote host

Avi Bryant avi at dabbledb.com
Fri Jul 4 20:16:13 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM, John Chandler <morph at growler.net> wrote:
> I have shell (ssh) access to a Debian host that has a DNS-able
> address, but no X-server.  The little I've done in Squeak has all been
> from the GUI, which depends on X or a similar console GUI, which I
> don't have access to.  I mean, *theoretically,* I could run X, but I
> seriously doubt I could get it to display on my machine, which lives
> on a private net in a residential setting.
>
> It must be possible to develop for Squeak/Seaside under these
> conditions, but it's not clear to me what the best way would be.
> Clues?

Install the RFBServer package.  This lets you use VNC to use the
Squeak GUI remotely, and with much better performance than you would
have gotten from X.

Avi



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