remote x-window

[Garrett Cooper]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote:

> I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote  
> machine with
> x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right  
> direction as
> I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the  
> machine.
>
> Beech
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	For strictly a X11 forwarded solution, do something like the following:

user at local_host $ ssh -CY user at remote_host
user at remote_host $ twm& # or xfwm4 or something else like that.

	For a VNC solution, I suggest using x11vnc. By using SSH forwarding  
and compression you can easily attach to a preexisting desktop session.
-Garrett