Problems forwarding X over ssh

[William Hooper]

Peter W Beninate said:
> 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.

X apps are tunnel via SSH.  I supposed it would be possible to tunnel
Gnome or KDE over SSH, I highly doubt it would be recommended.

-- 
William Hooper