• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    How do you use these when you are connecting via SSH? You enable X forwarding?

    It’s fine when you have a graphical environment, but what do you do when you dont have one?

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      3 months ago

      Using X forwarding would require you to install big chunks of GNOME or KDE on the server. A better approach is to mount the remote server over SFTP then use KWrite, gedit, whatever, directly on your desktop.

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      3 months ago

      In any KDE app you can connect with SFTP in the open file dialog. Just type sftp://user@server/path and you can browse/open/edit files the remote server. ssh keys+agent make things a lot easier here obviously.