Working on a unix server on ssh can be comforting for most unix fan’s. Some times you would like to run an application on the server but have the display send to your own client. This can be done by preforming just two steps:

1. Configure the server to send the display to your client
2. Run a X server on your client to accept the x display

Configure display
This is the easy step simply open a ssh connection to the server and set the display variable to [ip]:0.0

export DISPLAY=10.0.0.1:0.0

Configure X server
To accept on the client the display you need a x server running. I have used XMing, a project available on sourceforge.net.

After installation run XLaunch and preform the following configuration:

Select how you want to display our windows:

Select your start options for Xming. You can choose to configure an ssh program to run but in this example skip this.

Here you configure the paramters of running the X-Server. For a getting started i would advise to check the option No Access Control. This is less secure but to start receiving a display it’s a good start. When you have the connection working you can start configure the Server Access Controle

Final step is to save the configuration (if wanted of course) and Finish the wizard.

Now have a X-Server running on the client and
Software user:

• XMing

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