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POUsing Xnest between Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) and Ubuntu 10.10
 

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    <p>I just installed an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop on a system to do some development work. I would like to run the X server environment on my MacBook instead of keyboard hopping (the graphics system on the Ubuntu box is not so great).</p> <p>Poking around on the web I uncovered the following command that I can run from a terminal in Mac OS X:</p> <pre><code>/usr/X11/bin/Xnest -geometry 1280x900 :1 &amp; DISPLAY=:1 ssh -X -Y grog@ubuntusys gnome-session </code></pre> <p>Note I have ssh set up so authentication happens automatically.</p> <p>This seems to work great -- the Ubuntu desktop appears on my Mac OS X screen! (It seems to be smart enough to start X11 if it isn't running already). However if I try to open any program, it dies out. So close.</p> <p>Any suggestions appreciated. </p> <p>Update: Thanks to the answer below that provides a tutorial link I learned how to do basic X forwarding. You can do this from an X terminal window on the Mac simply like this:</p> <pre><code>ssh -X -Y username@targetsystem </code></pre> <p>then you can start X applications that run on the remote system but their windows are on the Mac X server. The issue that I now have is I want to start the gnome desktop session:</p> <pre><code>gnome-session </code></pre> <p>but the problem there is that the session takes over the whole Mac desktop. You cannot resize it or move it. Worse, the top part of the windows managed by the window manager end up underneath the menu bar that Mac OS puts up there so you cannot access those controls. I think this is a problem that Xnest was intended to solve, or am I misunderstanding what it is all about?</p>
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