Remote execution of a program

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Sat Sep 12 12:34:35 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 23:42 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> How can I log into another computer via ssh, start a gui application,
> then log out and leave it running on the remote computer.  Is this even
> possible?

If you want the program forwarded to your local X-server run

ssh -X <remote-machine> <remote-gui-program>

This forwards your GUI output over the SSH session back to your Linux
box.  Logging out is irrelevant, since the SSH session will stay active
until you terminate the GUI program.
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