On Tue 28 Apr 2020 at 13:43:16 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 28, 2020, Steve Keller wrote: > > What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: > > Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in > > that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, > > i.e. > > > > xterm -e ssh -X <host> or ssh -X <host> xterm -ls > > > > What are pros and cons? I see one: The latter will produce more > > overhead as it runs the X11 protocol through the ssh tunnel. > > I must be missing something key - what's wrong with "ssh user@host" ?
I presume the OP is setting up a menu item. You and I are probably typing into an xterm (or similar) already). Also I presume that the OP wants the same username at host. Cheers, David.
