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Remote X11 apps through SSH

Shell Script (Bash) posted about 1 year ago by marko

In order to forward X11 applications from a remote server into your local X session the server must support tunneling of X11 apps with this property in sshd_config 

   1  X11Forwarding yes

Then simply issue the -X parameter for the SSH client. 

   1  ssh -X remotehost

Now run an X11 application from the SSH terminal and it’s UI will be tunneled to your local X session.

   1  gvim my_script.rb

Tagged ssh, x11, remote applications, linux