Remote X over ssh

[Shawn Tayler]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:03:30 -0800 Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com>
exclaimed:

> If you're seeing a DISPLAY=:0.0, it's not being set by the sshd process
> on the remote machine.  The sshd DISPLAY will be either something like
> localhost:10.0 or $FQDN.10.0 depending on the setting of the sshd_config
> ``X11UseLocalhost'' line (Linux seems happy with localhost:xx.0 while
> some OS's require a real host name).
> 
> You have to have ``X11Forwarding yes'' in the sshd_config file on the
> remote system, and either use the ``-X'' option in the ssh command or
> have``ForwardX11 yes'' in the ssh_config file on the client machine.
> 
> BTW:  the command ``sshd -X -f $system xterm'' should start an xterm on
> the remote machine where the ``-f'' option automatically deletes the
> local ssh process.  I use this on a LAN connection, but run the xterm on
> my local machine when going across slower links using this to start it:
> 
> 	xterm -e ssh -l $user $system &
> 
> >I tried startx and kdeinit says it can't start either.
> 
> You probably don't want to use startx on the remote machine as that will
> give you two window managers, one on your local box, and one on the
> remote.

I tried each of these and the appropriate lines are enetered in ssh_config
and sshd_config.  I did get an xterm on the remote machine, ie. bash shell
in an X window.  So I can then simply run X apps from this xterm?

Shawn