Editing X Window System (section)

=== Remote desktop ===
To run an X client application on a remote machine, the user may do the following:
* on the local machine, open a terminal window
* use {{Code|ssh -X}} command to connect to the remote machine
* request a local display/input service (e.g., <kbd>export DISPLAY=''[user's machine]'':0</kbd> if not using SSH with X forwarding enabled)

The remote X client application will then make a connection to the user's local X server, providing display and input to the user.

Alternatively, the local machine may run a small program that connects to the remote machine and starts the client application.

Practical examples of remote clients include:
* administering a remote machine graphically (similar to using remote desktop, but with single windows)
* using a client application to join with large numbers of other terminal users in collaborative workgroups
* running a computationally intensive simulation on a remote machine and displaying the results on a local desktop machine
* running graphical software on several machines at once, controlled by a single display, keyboard and mouse