Archive for the 'OS X' Category

This article is a quick and dirty guide detailing my experience getting X11 Forwarding to work on OS X. You don’t need to know all of the details of the X Window System or of the XFree86 Project to get this working, I found I just needed to know which ssh flags to use with the computer I was connecting to. One of the really useful things about my new iBook is having a system running ssh and capable of X11 Forwarding out of the box.

Making the transition from PC to Mac has not been very difficult for me, but this is likely due to some familiarity with OS 8/9 in the 1990s, and some experience with Unix. Nevertheless, some advanced functionality of Windows that I have come to use on a daily basis, I expected to be able to “port over” to OS X immediately, and was not able to. On top of that, my first exposure to OS X is on a notebook, where the complexity of keyboard commands increases due to multi-functional keys.