How can I launch a GUI session on a remote Ubuntu Desktop via SSH from a non-GUI Linux shell?
- by Vihung
I am setting up a test environment, made up of various Linux boxes, and I have the need to launch an instance of Firefox on a remote machine via ssh.
The remote machine has Ubuntu Desktop (11) and Firefox installed.
The source machine is a Continuous Integration server and it creates an ssh session to the remote machine from a non-GUI environment. It then runs a script, which tries to launch Firefox on the remote machine.
However, since the ssh session is a from a non-GUI environment, there is no display.
Is it possible to have a headless X-windows display? i.e. a virtual display in the remote environment for Firefox to run in? What options do I have?