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[mcewanw]

Program: Premote
license GPLv3
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Changes:
0.9.3 Fixed helptext for internationalisation.

NOTE WELL: Principal change from ver 0.9.2 onwards is that user accessible variable C has been renamed to variable A (in line with my other program Pfetch). Hence relevant combobox commands changed to refer to A (rather than to C).

Other main change is wider interface.

Please find Premote at foot of this post. By default its interface is in English but it is an option to also install any provided language translations dotpets for your locale.

Once installed, you can start Premote from:

JWM menu Start -> Network -> Premote

Premote was designed to be a simple gtkdialog GUI front end to remote desktop and login clients such as rdesktop (rdp), vnc, and secure shell (ssh). It thus depends for functionality on the underlying commandline client being installed.

It has been tested on Slacko 5.3.3 and Wary 5.3 using the rdesktop 1.7.1 client from here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=620847#620847 using the rdesktop libraries from here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=567013&search_id=899635330#567013.

Premote probably works fine in Puppy 4.x series as well.

On pressing the Premote "play" button, it operates just as if the displayed command was typed into a console window and the "Enter key pressed", but it brings the following advantages of a GUI environment:

* A dropdown list of pre-saved commands, which can be edited (modified, deleted, or appended to) in your system's default text editor by pressing the Edit button on the righthand side of the dropdown list.

* Entry boxes (variables) for remote computer URL Address (A), remote login User name (U), and remote login Password (P). The dropdown command can refer to these using standard bash shell syntax (i.e. $A, $U, $P).

* Entry data can be input manually, or via drag and drop, or cut and paste.

* Premote also provides brief tool-tip text over most elements of its GUI, which becomes visible when the mouse is hovered over each element.

More generally, Premote provides an editable, floating commandline (with a dropdown list of pre-stored commandlines) which can be any commandline at all as long as it is valid bash syntax. Pretty much any bash commandline including quote marks and \ can be entered.
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Tips:

To keep premote as the top window, right-click on its window bar, and select Layer -> Top
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mcewanw, Sep 2012

[mcewanw]

Just another wee tip:

If you start Premote from a console and type in any valid bash command, you can redirect the output to that console by ending the command with >/dev/tty as follows:

[mcewanw]

Premote rdesktop (rdp), vnc and ssh gtkdialog frontend.

Version 0.9.2 released. Download from first posts of this thread.

NOTE WELL: Principal change from ver 0.9.2 onwards is that user accessible variable C has been renamed to variable A (in line with my other program Pfetch). Hence relevant combobox commands changed to refer to A (rather than to C).

Other main change is wider interface.

A few under-the-hood alternations.

Functionality otherwise unchanged.

Note that if you ever accidentally delete or corrupt the config files for premote in $HOME/.premote, simply re-run the program and it will automatically rebuild the default config file entries.

By default its interface is in English but it is an option to also install any provided language translations dotpets for your locale. I haven't provided the premote.pot file this time since L18L has informed me that moedit can produce that automatically.

Please post any translation tar.gz or dotpets here and I will provide them as an optional collection at or near the top of the thread.

[mcewanw]

re-uploaded Premote new version 0.9.2

I had made a mistake in combobox command list - fixed

NOTE WELL: Principal change from ver 0.9.2 onwards is that user accessible variable C has been renamed to variable A (in line with my other program Pfetch). Hence relevant combobox commands changed to refer to A (rather than to C).

[mcewanw]

Changes:
0.9.3 Fixed helptext for internationalisation.

[01micko]

Thank you Mr McEwan for this nice app. It will likely make it's way into the next Slacko. I successfully ssh'd into my slackware box and rdesktop'd into an XP installation, no problems whatsoever.

About time you got some feedback eh?

Cheers.

[mcewanw]

[01micko]

Actually i scratched that bit I posted that you quoted

You can start X remotely and use the X apps anyway, so it's just unnecessary. Successfully posting this from firefox (which I do not have installed locally but on my remote slacko box) so working in slacko as host and client.

[rodin.s]

Some paragraphs of help was not translated so I have changed gettext a bit.

[L18L]