Remote X

[Jonathan Allen]

Jack Wallen wrote:
> Jonathan Allen wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone had any success getting remote X sessions running between
> > machines over the open Net using ssh pipes ?  I've been looking at
> > the FreeNX tool but wondered if there is any easy way to just make
> > this happen - any tricks and tips anyone would care to share ?
> 
> if you're talking about doing this between Linux machines it's simple.
> you have to add the -X flag like so:
> 
> ssh -v -l username 192.168.1.3 -X

OK, the verbose output shows it is prepared to do X forwarding for the
session, but what then - at the shell prompt - how do you make the X
session start ?  Typing 'startx' complains that display 0 is already in
use (as indeed it is, locally).

Jonathan