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EKG2-REMOTE(1) General Commands Manual EKG2-REMOTE(1)

NAME

ekg2-remote - remote User Interface for EKG2
 

SYNOPSIS

ekg2-remote [OPTIONS] REMOTE-ENDPOINT
 

DESCRIPTION

ekg2-remote is a program which provides a remote user interface to an EKG2 instance that uses the "remote" plugin. It connects to EKG2 via a socket, and lets you use the program as if it was running locally.
 
The motivation behind this program was to be able to use EKG2 on a low performance machine with limited memory and CPU resources.
 

OPTIONS

-c--charset=CHARSET
forces the charset name to use,
 
-p--password=PASSWORD
sets the password,
 
-T--test=FRONTEND
runs in test mode (for debugging), using FRONTEND user interface (default is ncurses),
 
-F--frontend=FRONTEND
uses FRONTEND user interface (default is ncurses),
 
-m--no-mouse
does not load mouse support,
 
-U--unicode
forces unicode support,
 
-h--help
displays a help message,
 
-v--version
displays program version and exits
 
ENDPOINT specifies the EKG2 instance to connect to. The following are accepted:
 
tcp:address:port
cleartext TCP/IP connection to given address and port
 
tcps:address:port
SSL-encrypted TCP/IP connection to given address and port
 
udp:address:port
UDP/IP connection to given address and port
 
unix:socket-path
local (UNIX) connection to given socket-path
 
pipe:fifo-path
local (pipe) connection to given fifo-path. Currently unsupported.
 

SEE ALSO

ekg2(1). The full documentation for ekg2 is maintained as a Docbook manual. See http://ekg2.org/ekg2book/ for an online version.
2008-03-05 User Commands