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Starting a program on the desktop from SSH in Ubuntu

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Mar 15, 20265089 views
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I'm logged into my Ubuntu 11.04 box using SSH, and I need to start a program - but it is a Windows GUI program which runs under WINE. How can I start the program from the SSH terminal so that it opens on the desktop, and then stays open even after I log out of SSH.

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Fix for: Starting a program on the desktop from SSH in Ubuntu

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The general way to start a graphical program from a remote machine: On the target machine run . (You'll need to do this from a terminal, or from a login script.) from a remote client, SSH into the target machine and run where "program" is the progra…

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