how do you use ssh to look at and control the other computers monitor?

[Kevin Fries]

Actually, it should work fine, but the switch is not a magic pill.  It will
not start a graphic desktop for you automatically.

First, set your display variable, generally it will need set to 10.1 or
11.1, then start a program on the remote machine that has a GUI, such as
Firefox.  If you do it correctly, Firefox will run from the remote machine,
but tunnel the graphics back via the tunnel to your desktop.

VNC will remote the whole desktop, not just a single X app.

Kevin
On Apr 26, 2012 3:35 AM, "Ben Browning" <benb at bensbrowning.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I saw the Y and X options but i suppose it is more complicated than just
> > typing in 'ssh -lX|Y|x <user>@<ipaddress>. The man page wasn't much
> help....
> > or maybe I'm just too tired. So what do you say?
>
> ssh does not do this. You may want vnc.
>
> ~Ben
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