Ubuntu - How to launch a GUI program in a remote Ubuntu box via SSH
To launch a GUI program in a xUbuntu machine from a remote xUbuntu box, following these steps:
1. Assuming someone had logged-in to the remote machine (let call it R) with user 'remoteuser' in graphical mode (init 5)
2. From my computer, ssh to R machine with user 'remoteuser' (!important, if you login to R with another user, this won't work):
trinh@local-pc$ ssh remoteuser@R.IP.Address
3. Run the following command before launch any graphical program:
remoteuser@remote-pc$ export DISPLAY=:0
4. Finally, launch whatever GUI program you want, for example: Firefox:
remoteuser@remote-pc$ firefox &
1. Assuming someone had logged-in to the remote machine (let call it R) with user 'remoteuser' in graphical mode (init 5)
2. From my computer, ssh to R machine with user 'remoteuser' (!important, if you login to R with another user, this won't work):
trinh@local-pc$ ssh remoteuser@R.IP.Address
3. Run the following command before launch any graphical program:
remoteuser@remote-pc$ export DISPLAY=:0
4. Finally, launch whatever GUI program you want, for example: Firefox:
remoteuser@remote-pc$ firefox &
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