SSH tunnelling"> MicroX using SSH tunnelling

• See also SecureShell for details on SSH

SSH Client and"> Configuration of SSH Client and MicroX Xwin32

• SSH Client is UofW Site License copy from SSH Communications Version 3.29

Enable X11 Tunnelling

• We Assume you have an existing SSH connection to a host that you wish an Xterm from
• Edit Menu - > Settings -> Tunnelling -> Check Tunnel X11 Connections
• Save Settings and restart your connection (X tunneling is seting at the start of a connection)
• Start X-Win32 - this starts the Xwindows Server on your machine - no configuration is needed

• Edit Menu:
  
  

• Tunnel Option Checkbox - set to ON
  

Usage

• Use SSH to connect to the host you wish an Xwindow session from
• run the command xterm &
  • You should see an xterm pop up

• You can create a small scripts to start common windows and run this each time you want to start X window sessions

#!/bin/sh
#
xterm &
xterm &
xclock &
twm &

• save this script and chmod 755 your_script_file to make it executable

Xterm Fonts

• You can use custom fonts with xterm using the -fn directive. For example here is a xterm that uses big fonts

xterm -title `hostname` -geometry 80x25 -bg white -fn 12x24

• You can list all valid fonts with xlsfonts
• You can view various fonts with xfontsel