Re: LUG: Screen command video & related question - Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:28:55 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Screen command video & related question

From : Ed Anderson <nilbus@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:28:55 -0400

The best solution I've found is to use VNC or NX to start a remote X
display, and run my applications inside it. It can be left and
resumed at any time.

Ed

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Daniel Underwood
<daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> Right, I understand and agree with most (if not all) of what you said.
> In truth, the example I gave was just something off the top of my head.
> I use c/c++ for most of my research. Matlab does, however, make
> multi-core processing simpler. In developing and testing certain models,
> we may prefer to use parallel computing via Matlab rather than taking
> the time to mess with pthreads, for example. But like you said, there's
> no compelling reason here not to use the command line.
>
> I guess I'm just curious, more than anything.
>
> To answer your question, I'm forwarding X11 over ssh. If in fact running
> the program in the background will prevent it from ending upon exiting
> the ssh session, I still wouldn't know how to "resume" the X11 display I
> was using. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Underwood
> North Carolina State University
> Graduate Student - Operations Research
> email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> phone: XXX.302.3291
> web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
>
>