X11 help wanted

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Fri Jun 5 09:17:28 UTC 2009


> Did you use ssh X forwarding? You should! 
> 
> Something like (on U):
> 
> % ssh -X R xclock
> 
> will start xclock on R and forward the display to U
> 
> With ssh -X you do not need to set a DISPLAY and need not disable X
> security with "xhost +"

In some case you need ssh -Y instead of ssh -X

Chris




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