On 07/12/2007, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
/ I can ssh into a remote machine.
/>/ I can start X on that machine with startx />/ />/ How do I then start firefox on that machine (from the ssh prompt) and />/ have it display on my machine in my office. />/ />/ So I want to be using firefox on the remote machine but displaying the />/ screen output from firefox in my office. />/ Both boxes are running centos 5. / don't startx on the REMOTE machine, have it running on the LOCAL machine.
local$ ssh -X remote ...authenticate... remote$ firefox
&
and firefox should open on the local...
I tried the above (without the &) and firefox just returns.
I looked at /etc/ssh/sshd_config and X11Forwarding is yes.
ssh -X remoteIP firefox
It just took a really long time through the internet...
Then consider:
1. turning on maximum compression ("-C" switch to ssh). 2. If you can switch to VNC or NX then do it, apparently it works better than X11 over long distances (and from the docs I understand it's possible to have VNC/NX for one window, no need to setup an entire desktop for that).
--Amos