One more article in the books and one more bit of knowledge plastered across the internet. I’ve never needed to dig into that and, amazingly enough, I don’t know everything. I haven’t really dug into it, but I am reasonably confident that washed out look is because of compression. That’s an example of Firefox forwarded over SSH using x11 forwarding and you may notice the washed out look.
See? Note the carefully drawn arrow that shows where it was forwarded from. If you find one that doesn’t work, you can always check any errors thrown and go from there. You may find some applications won’t work, often due to ownership and permissions issues, but you’ll find many that work just fine. For example, open gedit by typing just that into the terminal. Once you’re there, just go ahead and start an application. Now, in said terminal, you need to run the following command: To do that, you just press CTRL + ALT + T on your keyboard and your default terminal emulator should open. How do you do this? Well, first you need to crack open your terminal. See? It comes in handier than you might think. So, I opened GEdit remotely and pasted in my password, transferring my new password to the other device. I had to move a complex password to my laptop and I was being lazy. If I write something and save it, it’d be saved on the computer that I’m connected to and not the computer that I’m using.Īmusingly, I used this exact process just recently. I’ve just forwarded the GUI application to this computer. Check this: That’s GEdit running on a different computer, but forwarded to this one.
Or, alternatively, and often more simply, you can just forward graphic applications over SSH.
That’s great, but what if you want to use a GUI application? Sure, you could set up some sort of remote desktop application, such as VNC. Well, when you’re connected to another computer via SSH you can use the terminal to control the computer. What is this strange thing, this x11 forwarding? Way back in the earliest days of Wayland development, it was agreed that it should retain backwards compatibility with x11 forwarding. Just to quickly clear up a misconception, x11 forwarding works just fine with Wayland.
Once you learn how, you may decide to stop using VNC or TeamViewer. In today’s article, we’re going to learn how to forward GUI application windows with SSH. In the last article, I explained how to enable SSH.
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