Exporting full X windows session via ssh
Posted by Ryan on February 20, 2009 in ComputerInfo, Linux, Solaris
Environment
client1 – your local machine that you want to view the server’s full gnome X session on.
server1 – the server that will send its X display through the ssh tunnel, to display on client1.
Syntax
Type the following from client side.
Xephyr -ac -screen 1024×768 -reset -terminate 2> /dev/null :1 &
DISPLAY=:1.0 ssh -XC root@server1 gnome-session 2>/dev/null
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