Dotan,
On 25 July 2010 16:32, Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
However, when I do this I get no response (no firefox window opens, no terminal output), even after several minutes. I figured that was because X is not running.
That's not the reason. You don't run X on the server for such purposes. You already run it on your own PC. In such cases the server runs on your PC, the client is the app you are running. I know it sounds backward but that's the case. Are you sure you have enough bandwidth? Try running something simple like xterm. Also X11 forwarding might have been turned off in sshd_config.