http://www.wetware.co.nz/blog/2009/12/open-remote-application-window-over-ssh-x11/ Getting computers to do stuff so we don't have too Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:15:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.wetware.co.nz/blog/2009/12/open-remote-application-window-over-ssh-x11/comment-page-1/#comment-2767 Brian Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:22:59 +0000 http://www.wetware.co.nz/blog/?p=647#comment-2767 Neat trick, but why not just use VNC ? If you've got SSH working, the rest is pretty simple. Install tigervnc viewer, then tigervnc-server on the remote. Then, you can SSH into the remote and launch the server using: x0vncserver -SecurityTypes=none -display=:0 Simply specify the display, and disable password protection. Then, in another console, launch the viewer using: vncviewer -via user@remote-addr localhost The '-via' option sets up your SSH tunnel. It then connects to 'localhost' at the remote end. Simple, quick and you can see what you're doing :) Neat trick, but why not just use VNC ?
If you’ve got SSH working, the rest is pretty simple.
Install tigervnc viewer, then tigervnc-server on the remote.
Then, you can SSH into the remote and launch the server using:
x0vncserver -SecurityTypes=none -display=:0
Simply specify the display, and disable password protection.
Then, in another console, launch the viewer using:
vncviewer -via user@remote-addr localhost
The ‘-via’ option sets up your SSH tunnel.
It then connects to ‘localhost’ at the remote end.
Simple, quick and you can see what you’re doing

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