How can I use Bitcoin-QT as frontend for a remote bitcoind server/wallet?

[DandoRealIta]

Hi,
today I tried to use the Bitcoin-QT client as a frontend for a remote bitcoind server.

This is bitcoin.conf on the server:

server=1
rpcuser=MyUser
rpcpassword=MyPass
rpctimeout=60
rpcallowip=Client_IP
rpcport=8332

This is of the client:

rpcuser=MyUser
rpcpassword=MyPass
rpcconnect=Server_IP
rpcport=8332


However, upon starting the Bitcoin-QT client, it made a new wallet and downloaded blocks locally.

Can you help me?

[Pieter Wuille]

No, the Qt interface requires much more intimate access to bitcoin's datastructures than what is exposed through RPC.

There are some long-term plans to separate node and UI further, though.

[DandoRealIta]

I see, is there some alternative? I checked other clients and frontends but, or they are old ( and probably do not support encrypted wallets ) or, like electrum, you can have only the blockchain in remote but not the wallet

[Tachikoma]

What can't Electrum do that you would want?