On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> wrote: > #!/bin/csh > # > # script for ~/bin/firefox (assumes ~/bin is in your path) > # > scp ~/.Xauthority dfw1@localhost: > ssh dfw1@localhost -n "setenv DISPLAY :0.0; firefox"
snip > * Also note that these applications will be able to use X shared memory > and thus run fairly optimally (they are NOT using an ssh tunnel nor do > we want them to as that would be ridiculously slow). Programs run in > this way will not have direct access to the GPU so 3D might not be > so hot. But for general browsing I haven't had any trouble, and even > with 4K video appears to work about the same as it did before. Can you explain how this works without going through localhost:22? Isn't X forwarded through the ssh tunnel?
