On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Yves S. Garret wrote: > $ xhost + > $ ssh -X someusername at somehostname.net -p 49283 > > Remote: > $ export DISPLAY=192.168.1.6:0.0 Why are you doing this? If ssh isn't setting the DISPLAY variable to something like localhost:10.0 then sshd isn't configured to tunnel X, you're missing libraries, or something else. The whole point of "-X" is that it tells ssh to tunnel X traffic back to your machine. So all you should need to do is ssh -X user at host -p 49283 xclock Or ssh -Y user at host -p 49283 xclock -- rgds Stephen