[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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