
In Mac OS X on X11 Quartz check the authorization and client access options under Preferences in the Security pane.Įnable X11 Forwarding with the “X11Forwarding yes” option set in “/private/etc/sshd_config” for your SSH Daemon own local X11 host in order to recieve X11 client request back from the remote machine through ‘ ssh‘ with the -X option set. X11 environments on both the local and remote machine (see man X).

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN REWRITTEN (Manual set of the $DISPLAY variable is insecure!) This is possible on Mac OS X with X11 Forwarding.

Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) or VNC is a wonderful invention if you want full control over a remote desktop, but what if you only want to access the user display of one single X11 program on a remote machine?
