Joseph Dane wrote: > local> ssh -X remote > remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo > If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case) > won't know how to contact the X server.
Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will create non secure X forwarding, which is a little bit faster. I am aware of a few ssh servers which don't alow ssh display forwarding. So the only way there is via regular forwarding.