On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:42:31 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Like I said, I haven't personally tried to run X remotely. (I wouldn't
> know how.) I'm told it requires spending hours editing the X
> configuration files to set up authentication and so forth, and then to
> make sure the server is started, and then to tell the application you
> want to run to open on the remote machine rather than the local one (by
> using CLI options that vary for every individual program so you have to
> look them up), and then...

Nonsense.

ssh -X hostname
<Launch X application>
Application launches and X interface is on my machine while the code runs 
on the remote machine.

No configuration necessary at all.

Jim

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