SSH and Xming alternatives for Mac

[jtdolphins]

On my PC I used SSH with Xming to visualize apps from a linux cluster. Xming is an X11 server.

The terminal works fine for SSH, but how do I set it up so that I can visualize the app? I assumed the X11 should be able to do this, but I can not figure out how this works.

My knowledge of linux is limited, but I need to learn more about it. I am getting up to speed with OSX. I think the mac (10.5.5) has everything I need to do this, but I just can not figure out how.

 

[walkerj]

X11 is included on your OS X install discs, but is not installed by default. I believe it's part of the Xcode development kit, which is a pretty cool thing to have on your Mac anyway, since it includes gcc and tools you can use to compile Darwin ports and other neat-o scripting utilities. So load up your install discs, install the Xcode and X11 and you should be able to start up an X server so you can display apps running on your Linux boxen on your Mac.

 

[jtdolphins]

X11 is installed on my computer. I have it up running an xterm window. I was also using it to ssh the clusters. That all works, but...

How do I get X server to start in an xterm window so that I can view the app in the xterm window?

 

[walkerj]

Pretty sure on the Mac in your xterm window you would xhost [name of remote host], then ssh to the remote host. Set your display environment variable to the IP of your Mac, then when you launch the app on the linux machine it should display back to your Mac's X server. Been awhile since I've done that though, so I may have missed a step or two.

 

[jtdolphins]

Pretty sure on the Mac in your xterm window you would xhost [name of remote host], then ssh to the remote host. Set your display environment variable to the IP of your Mac, then when you launch the app on the linux machine it should display back to your Mac's X server. Been awhile since I've done that though, so I may have missed a step or two.

I have tried to use xhost and display, but it hasn't worked. I saw some suggestions around but they didn't work.

Does anyone know the steps to do this?