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X11 forwarding osx
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Steps for X11 forwarding with OSX -
Install Xquartx with Homebrew --
brew cask install xquartz
Set preferences for xquartz
open -a XQuartz. In the XQuartz preferences, go to the “Security” tab and make sure you’ve got “Allow connections from network clients” ticked:
Use xhost on remote machine to allow access to local client for x11 forwarding
xhost + 1.1.1.1 (SSH client ip)
Set env variable on remote machine to local ssh client ip
env DISPLAY=1.1.1.1:0
Run remote x11 app from ssh session on remote machine
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