Remote X over ssh

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005, Shawn Tayler wrote:
>On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:16:34 -0800 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
>exclaimed:
>
>> Shawn Tayler wrote:
>> 
>> >Ok Guys,
>> >
>> >All this X discussion has brought to mind an issue that I had put on a
>> >back burner.  I am trying to get a remotre X session on a PC over a LAN.
>> > I am
>> >using ssh to initially connect.  I have X Forwarding enabled in the
>> >sshdconfig file.  What are the other steps I need to accomplish?  the
>> >xhost+ and export DISPLAY 0.0:?  
>> >
>> >What would be the difference if I wanted to say have my local X session
>> >on cntl-alt-F7 anf the remote session appear on cntl-alt-F8?  Is thios
>> >possible?
>> >
...
>> I enable forwarding in sshd_config using
>> 
>> X11Forwarding yes
>> 
>> and the call I use is
>> 
>> ssh -X servername
>> 
>> this runs the program on the server, but displays it on the client. 
>> Maybe not exactly what you want, but it's easy.
>> 
>
>This just gives me a text mode ssh session.  

Do you have a DISPLAY environment variable set in that ssh
session?  If so, you should be able to run X clients from that
session (e.g. run ``xeyes'').

NOTE:  Current versions of openssh require setting
``ForwardX11Trusted yes'' in the ssh_config file.

Bill
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