Anonymous Coward writes “corey again.. you gotta let me know how to get x-forwarding working right with ssh…… :)”

On a Windoze (or Mac?) box, use putty:
1) Run an X server on your box – I use Hummingbird at work, Cygwin-X at home (I love it!)
2) Putty Configuration->Connection->SSH->Tunnels:

  • [x] Enable x11 forwarding
  • Xdisplay= localhost:0.0
    3) connect through putty and start up an X app

    On linux:
    1) ssh to where you need to go
    2) export DISPLAY=[yourip]:0.0
    3) start up an X app

    Do either of those work for ya?

  • I really love Gentoo, but I don’t get to play with it enough (my main server is Fedora Core 3). Under Fedora, I use yum to stay up to date. On Gentoo, of course, there is portage. Here are some notes on the steps to get things updated on my spare Gentoo box…

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