Running graphical application from Bubba on your windows pc

Are you tired of only using console program on your remote Bubba then this how-to is for you.

To be able to run graphical applications from Bubba on your PC there are a few things thats needs to be set up. There is several way you could accomplish this goal. In this how-to we will use the standard Linux/Unix graphic libraries X11 to accomplish this.

First we need to install the X11 server on our Windows pc. I will use the Cygwin/x x.cygwin.com/. Here you can find documentation on how to install the program x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html.

Make sure that you install the following packages: xorg-server, xinit, X-start-menu-icons, openssh

Just search for the package name and then click once on the package so it changes from skip to a version number.

After you have installed Cywin/X you should start the Xwin server application that should exist on your start menu. This will start the X11 server and give you an X terminal from where you can ssh in to Bubba.

Now is the time to ssh into Bubba and become root to install the needed packages on Bubba. In this how-to you can see how you acces the Bubba with SSH Access_Server_via_SSH. You should follow the description for the Linux terminal. Just answer yes to the question Are you sure you want to continue connecting

When you have root access on Bubba you should run this command to install the needed packages

apt-get install xbase-clients x11-common xterm

To be continued ....