By itself, that sets up the SSH session to forward X11 connections from the X11 client (machine you've connected to) to your X11 server (local X server).
Generally you won't easily be able to run a full KDE session through SSH - you already have a window manager running and I don't think KDE will let itself start. What you could do is run X11 applications (KDE or otherwise) and display them on your local X server. For instance, after opening a SSH session (with the -X option), type in mozilla at the prompt and a Mozilla window should pop(assuming that you have Mozilla on the server - if you don't, try konsole or konqueror. You'll need to open the SSH session from within an X terminal window. What you're probably better off looking at is VNC or FreeNX - they're graphics based remote connectivity instead of a console and can be considerably quicker then proxying X sessions over SSH, based on my experience (they're actually usable!) Jamie On Mon, November 21, 2005 1:05 pm, Kin C Wong wrote: > Just discovered ssh last week. It is really cool. As I am not that > comfortable using command line, I would like to run KDE. I was told that > you could use the following command to do that: > > ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It doesn't seem to do anything for me. I have tried man, help and > googling but to no avail. Any suggestions as to where to look would be > appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > -- Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has its limits." --unknown _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
