ssh -X

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 15 15:54:06 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:51:10AM -0400, Teddy wrote:
> Today I discovered ssh -X (old new to most TLUG)
> 
> I was able to run X window applications remotely from a Ubuntu box 
> running X Windows.
> If I were to run an X-window app from Putty/Windows, would the X-window 
> apps still run? (my guess is no)

If you have an X server running on windows, and you select the 'forward
X session' option in putty, then yes it will.  My wife does that at
times using cygwin X server with putty.

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