Re: Problems forwarding X over ssh

From: Aaron Matteson (fedora_at_cryptosystem.us)
Date: 05/20/04

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    Peter W Beninate became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes,
    > William Hooper wrote:
    > >Michael Marsh said:
    > >
    > >>Really strange.... but it seems like it is sort of
    > >>working... just not forwarding what I would
    > >>get if I were physically sitting at the terminal.
    > >
    > >This has never been how X forwarding works. Perhaps you are confusing it
    > >with VNC?
    >
    > I have heard of people tunneling X through ssh, but have never done it
    > myself.

    I do this all the time like so:

    ssh -CX username@host application

    But i generally just open up a terminal and ssh to the host and enter
    the application name, example. gedit and it is forwarded to my local
    machine. 

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