In X terminology, I believe you want to run a Mac client from a Linux server. So you certainly don't need to install an X server on the Mac. What you do need to do, as mentioned in the hint at macosxhints.com, is edit /etc/sshdconfig on the Mac from. #X11Forwarding no to. X11Forwarding yes. Bb flashback for mac. Chimera runs on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), and 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but not on older versions of Mac OS X. A X11 server must be installed for Chimera to start. For 10.4, we recommend Apple's X server (X11). It is reliable and provides hardware OpenGL acceleration. Mac OS X Window Server vs. X11: the insane task. Color issues when forwarding X11 display to Windows. Set environment variables on Mac OS X Lion. How can I use quartz instead of x11 on these terminal commands? When Matlab crashes, X11 connection breaks on Mac OS.

• The X11.app that you run on your Mac is the server. X11 applications on remote hosts are clients. They reach out to your server to tap your display, keyboard and mouse, but with far lower.
• I needed to forward X11 output from one of my Linux servers recently to run virt-manager (manager for virtual machines in KVM), and because it’s been a while I had to download and install X11 server again. As some of you know, Xorg server is no longer shipped/installed with macOS by default. So you have to download it from XQuartz page: https.

X11 Server For Mac Shortcut

Although server hosts typically have no graphical desktop and only serve console-based clients, these machines still have the ability to serve a GUI display screen to a remote desktop if necessary.

The X11 protocol makes it possible to send the graphical display to a remote graphical desktop.

From a production standpoint, this can be useful if applications running in “headless” mode need to be debugged. For example, if Selenium tests using a headless version of Chrome are failing in a server environment, you may get hints by looking at the remote browser visually.

Overview

So that we are clear on terms, the “X client” is the Ubuntu host that is console-based and has no graphical interface of its own. We are going to enable the ssh service of this “X client” to forward X11 communication.

The “X server” is what is run on the graphic desktop environment. This is either your Ubuntu desktop host, Windows, or Mac. From the desktop “X server” we are going to ssh into the “X client”, making sure that X11 forwarding setting is enabled.

With this X11 communication channel properly established via ssh, a graphical applications run on the “X client” will be tunnel across and displayed on the GUI desktop.

X client, ssh settings

The first thing you have to validate is whether ssh on the X client is configured to forward X11, ensure “/etc/ssh/ssh_config” has the following values.

And then restart the ssh service:

X client, test application

A quick GUI based application we can use for testing is gvim.

Test from Ubuntu graphical desktop

Since you are running from an Ubuntu graphical desktop then you already have an X server running locally so no further installation is necessary.

Establish an ssh connection from your graphical desktop to the remote X client using the “-X” switch for X11 forwarding.

Which will then bring up the graphical vim editor on your desktop.

The DISPLAY variable is set to ‘localhost’ because the ssh connection is tunneling the X11 protocol.

Test from Windows

To test from Windows, we need to install an ssh client capable of X11 forwarding like PuTTY, and an X Server implementation such as VcXsrv. Download and install both applications with all defaults.

Open PuTTY and establish an ssh connection from Windows to the remote X client, making sure you enable X11 forwarding in Connection>SSH>X11. As shown below, check the X11 forwarding box, put in “localhost:0.0” for the display location and select the “MIT-Magic-Cookie” setting.

The DISPLAY variable is set to ‘localhost’ because the ssh connection is tunneling the X11 protocol.

Once you have started the remote ssh connection, run gvim from the console.

And it should be displayed on your Windows desktop like below.

Firefox example

For a more complex example, you can always install something like Firefox. From the X client machine:

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Archicad for mac. And then from the Windows or Ubuntu desktop, create the ssh connection, and run:

REFERENCES

https://gist.github.com/vietlq/8b20d09fdfe5f02f8b511c7847df39ee (example using gvim)

https://www.uxora.com/unix/45-xdisplay-over-ssh-with-putty-xming-vcxsrv (putty settings)

https://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Displaying_Ubuntu_Linux_Applications_Remotely_(X11_Forwarding) (for Ubuntu using ssh -X)

Quartz Mac

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ (download VcXsrv)

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/geoschem/docs/putty_install.html (putty and xming)

https://serverfault.com/questions/273847/what-does-warning-untrusted-x11-forwarding-setup-failed-xauth-key-data-not-ge (troubleshooting DISPLAY, xauth)

Xquartz X11

http://users.stat.umn.edu/~geyer/secure.html (do not use xhost anymore, if using ssh then xauth should work)