Pauldy’s House of Geek

Want to run apps under linux and pipe the graphical display to your mac using mountain lion?  This is how you do it.

Open the /etc/ssh_config file as the super user using the command sudo vi /etc/ssh_config

Find the line 

# ForwardX11 no

 and change it to 

ForwardX11 yes

Next you just need to make sure you have xQuartz installed from here.

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/

 

Those two items should have you able to ssh into remote linux system and run apps that require x on the remote machine and pipe the display to your mac.