Problems forwarding X over ssh

[Aaron Matteson]

Peter W Beninate became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes,
> William Hooper wrote:
> >Michael Marsh said:
> >
> >>Really strange.... but it seems like it is sort of
> >>working... just not forwarding what I would
> >>get if I were physically sitting at the terminal.
> >
> >This has never been how X forwarding works.  Perhaps you are confusing it
> >with VNC?
> 
> I have heard of people tunneling X through ssh, but have never done it 
> myself.

I do this all the time like so:

ssh -CX username at host application

But i generally just open up a terminal and ssh to the host and enter
the application name, example. gedit and it is forwarded to my local
machine.

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