Accessing remote X apps
From IlugCal
ssh allows us to open a secure sessionon the remote host. But we can also access X applications, and go beyond the commandline with ssh. Here is how.
- Fire up a terminal [in Gnome desktop Application-> Accessories-> Terminal ]
- Issue the command
ssh -X -C -f neo@necbuchadnezzar nautilus
where
- -X forwards the X11 output to your local X display
- -C is for the best compression
- -f tells it to automatically background itself after any authentication succeeds.
- neo@necbuchadnezzar connects user neo to nebuchadnezzar
- nautilus opens up the Gnome file manager Nautilus.
Try other applications like firefox or may be even gtk-gnutella as root if you are that much adventerous!
