Thanks for the information.  At my institution, we were told by the 
university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to 
"activate" X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons.  
Evidently, the persons were thinking of some other environment (MS 
Windows perhaps?).  Indeed, xeyes and firefox both work fine from the 
remote host to the local client workstation.

A question:  as a regular X window manager desktop from the remote 
machine is not displayed (that is, the pull down menu "Applications" 
under Gnome or the equivalent from KDE), is there any mechanism to get 
such a menu, etc., displayed?  What is the default GUI file manager 
(that allows an end user to "point and click" on an executable file to 
execute the application) that can be invoked from a remote terminal?

Yasha Karant

On 05/06/2014 02:09 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 05/06/2014 01:38 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> I am attempting to get ssh -X working to a remote machine for which I am
>> root.
>
> Hi Yasha,
>
> I can not make heads or tails aver what you wrote: probably
> not smart enough.
>
> Are you able to create a simple terminal?
>
>     ssh -l yasha -t -X -p port IP_address
>
> If it helps, here are my notes on "ssh -X";
>
>   syntax:
>         ssh -l <username> -t -X <ip.of.your.guest> <command>
>
>    For Example:
>         ssh -l todd -t -X 192.168.255.185 /usr/bin/gedit
>
> HTH,
> -T
>
>
>