General discussion • Re: Improve SSH communication?

Are there any tools that can help with this? Like any tools that can "wrap" the ssh connection or at least some tips to make it easier on the user?

Like others I'm not at all sure what you mean. You'd generally wrap things with ssh to improve security not the other way around.

A lot also depends on what aspect of using ssh you find to be "Extremely tedious" and what OS you are connecting from.

Personally, I'm primarily a user of ssh with the occasional X11 application but not the full desktop. This is how I do it on a windows11 client:

• Launch an X server in multi-window mode at system boot. I'm currently using cygwinX but there are others. You don't have to launch it at start up either, you can just launch it when you need it. Running it once is enough, you don't need to start it for each ssh session or for each Pi you connect to.
• All ssh connection are with putty using saved profiles and with X11 forwarding enabled.
• When I need more than one concurrent ssh session I launch another instance of putty and connect to the same Pi.
• When I need an X11 (GUI) application I launch it from the ssh session as a background task and let the X11 forwarding do its magic. As an eample, to launch Thonny:

  Code:

  thonny &

  Thonny is running on the Pi but sending its GUI and getting its input from the Windows box.

The above should be achievable on any modern GUI OS.

Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:29 pm

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