[PLUG] Remote Xnest over SSH uHOWTO

Karl M. Hegbloom karlheg at pdxlinux.org
Mon Dec 23 20:55:05 UTC 2002


Log into the remote machine, with "ssh -X".

Run "xauth list" and "echo $DISPLAY".

Get the magic cookie for your DISPLAY, and run:

xauth add localhost:N MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE ...

... replacing N with an arbitrary display number for the Xnest's
display, and the ... with the cookie listed previously.

Run:

Xnest :N -cookie ... >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &

... and wait for it to appear.

Now you can connect to it like:

xterm -display localhost:N

You could run an entire Gnome session on it if you wanted to.  If that
remote host is running GDM, KDM, or XDM, you could probably run:

Xnest :N -query locahost

... and not need the Xauth magic and the -cookie argument to Xnest.






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