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How to access graphical user interfaces on a remote Linux machine
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Two computers involved:
- Windows notebook
- Linux server in datacenter
On the remote server in the datacenter I do NOT have X installed.

root@remote:~# grep X11 /etc/ssh/sshd_config
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10

root@remote:~# echo DISPLAY

(empty output)

Login as standard user, try echo $DISPLAY again. Will be empty. As per "X11DisplayOffset" above, do
user@remote:~$ export DISPLAY="localhost:10.0"

On the Windows machine with Cygwin installed, do
ssh -XC -v user@remote

Then run a X-based graphical program, for testing I found x-www-browser. It will show up on the local Windows machine.

ssh -a -f -x -L 110:localhost:110 -L 6667:irc.server.com:6667 -L \
25:localhost:25 your_mail_server.com

ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 databaseServer