Why My Life Sucks

This was a search phrase I found on Icerocket.

I’m not going to be a smart ass about this one, it’s not quite trivial.

1. Make sure you have SSH installed on the andLinux side.     ‘apt-get install openssh’ should get it, if it’s not one of the defaults.
2. Create a non-root user (see the andLinux FAQ)   Not that you only have to do step on using this method.   It might not be a bad idea to add this user to the sudo list via visudo
3. Install an SSH client on your machine (I use putty)
4. Make sure andLinux and the X windows thing is running.   If you set it up as automatic it should be.
5. SSH into the andlinux ‘machine’   The IP address out of the box is 192.168.11.150
6. Log in as the user you created in step 2
7. Issue the command ‘kicker && exit’   Note the exit part is optional, it closes the ssh terminal window, which you want to do because your going to start using the xwindow terminal of your choice.

You should get a couple of lines of text while KDE wakes up, but then you will get the kicker bar.   I normally modify mine to live on the top of the screen so it doesn’t overlap the windows task bar.

After the first time all you have to do is steps 5-7.     I’ve removed all the various andLinux windows side app launchers from the quick start area and this is how I do it for day to day operations.     Please note that startup perl script is still running as root.   I haven’t tried removing it just yet, I have a gut feeling that it doesn’t need to run at all any more.   I’ll poke it with sharp sticks later and find out.

Oh, and yeah, I was right.   I really didn’t get out of bed yesterday, other than to make a fast trip to the local market for milk and soda.

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