[wellylug] Running an X session over SSH
Grant McLean
grant at mclean.net.nz
Thu Jan 29 07:10:14 NZDT 2004
Damon Lynch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 11:07, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> If you can ssh directly into the box from your home PC, and your work PC
> is running Mandrake, you can simply start applications in a terminal and
> they will be displayed locally. Works for me on our LAN.
>
> Damon
That should be pretty standard with and distribution. The SSH feature
concerned is called 'X forwarding'. You can enable it with -X on the
ssh command line or make it the default with 'ForwardX11 yes' in your
ssh config file ($HOME/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config).
Grant
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