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copied!<p>Depending on which version of OSX you're running, the best bet is probably the native Mac X11 Distribution. It's on the install CD (or if you're like me you got Lion through the App Store, it is available in the Utilities folder by default).</p> <p>Launching it (Applications > Utilities > X11) brings up a specific X11 x-terminal, which you can use to ssh forward over to your Ubuntu system. That link in Answer 1 is pretty old, I found this one to be more helpful: <a href="http://www.craigryder.com/linux-ubuntudebetc/x11-forwarding-and-ssh-for-remote-linux-ubuntu-desktop/" rel="nofollow">http://www.craigryder.com/linux-ubuntudebetc/x11-forwarding-and-ssh-for-remote-linux-ubuntu-desktop/</a></p> <p>The only extra option I use is the -C flag to enable compression when I run my ssh command. Please note that you do NOT have to run a full gnome-session to use the X features - you can simply run the program you want (ie, $ gedit&). This gets you out of using the whole desktop, but it is kind of weird since your Mac desktop still gets blacked out. You can find more on this technique @ <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1373823&page=2" rel="nofollow">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1373823&page=2</a></p> <p>I also noticed that on 10.10 Ubuntu, my system showed the same odd UI control behaviors you mention, but those disappeared when I upgraded my distribution to Ubuntu 11. I didn't really go to deep to see if simply upgrading X to the latest version on the 10.10 Ubuntu system would have fixed that issue, but I can confirm that it does not appear in 11.</p> <p>One final note, this still seems to force the Mac X11 server into Full-Screen mode, but if you press COMMAND-ALT-A it immediately takes you out of the X desktop and back into your Lion desktop, which allows me to have both running and still be productive when I need to jump out of my Ubuntu system. I seem to be able to always access all the title and menu bars for all of my X apps just as though I was sitting at the Ubuntu desktop.</p> <p>One caveat - I'm running the above to connect to a VMWare Workstation VM running Ubuntu (with 3D acceleration enabled) on my workstation - connecting to actual hardware may (though I can't fathom how) result in slightly different behavior.</p> <p>Hope this helped!</p>

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