January 2010 Archives

The problem with remote X is bandwidth. This means nice things like pixmap heavy themes and etc are a pain.

remoteXcheck=`echo $DISPLAY | cut -d: -f 1`

if [ -z "$remoteXcheck" ]; then

        fbpager&
        sonata --hidden&
        #pidgin &
        ekiga &
        autocutsel -fork
        zbgset -l
        skype&
       
        xcompmgr -d :0.0&
        xcompmgr -d :0.1&

        remote=""

        xhost +127.0.0.1

else

        remote=".remote"

        export GTK2_RC_FILES="~/.gtkrc-2.0-remote"

fi

fluxbox -rc ~/.fluxbox/init$remote

So for a local connection, it will start several apps, set the background and then run fluxbox using the default config, "~/.fluxbox/init". But for a remote connection, it will not run any apps, will not set the background, will tell GTK to use a alternate theme("~/.gtkrc-2.0-remote"), and tell fluxbox to load "~/.fluxbox/init.remote" for it's config.