How can I re-route Cocoa applications through ssh -X?

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Is is possible to re-route Cocoa applications through ssh -X? I like being able to route X applications, but I want to route Cocoa applications too. Any ideas?

@cftarnas Not quite. That is talking about running GUI apps through SSH. I want to run Cocoa apps. That post also refers to X window apps. — daviesgeek, Sep 06 '11 at 21:56
By GUI Apps he meant Cocoa apps (well, possibly Carbon as well), and by SSH he was tunneling them over the X protocol the same as you want to. — cftarnas, Sep 07 '11 at 00:32

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

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No - Cocoa is not an X windows compatible system. The closest you will get is screen sharing (VNC). See this question for more info. For Lion like background sharing with 10.5 and 10.6 see this question on third party VNC tools.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

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answered Sep 06 '11 at 21:52

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Hmm...I saw that question. Is it possible to have Lion-like screen sharing between two Leopard/SL computers? – daviesgeek Sep 07 '11 at 03:47
Yes - Lion just added the ability to share users that are logged in the background, Apple introduced screen sharing in Leopard (10.5). This Macworld article gives a good intro for 10.5. – cftarnas Sep 07 '11 at 05:04
What I meant was Lion-like sharing on older OSes. Without a Lion computer involved. – daviesgeek Sep 07 '11 at 15:50
With third party tools, see this question. – cftarnas Sep 07 '11 at 17:26
The second question gave me the answer. Using VineServer works! I can't tell you how excited I am about this! Thank you sooo very much! – daviesgeek Sep 07 '11 at 18:08
Actually it was a question linked within the second question. See http://serverfault.com/questions/8966/mac-os-x-multi-user-thin-client-server-terminal-server – daviesgeek Sep 07 '11 at 18:24
You can tunnel that through ssh using the -L flag to ssh to tunnel it (ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 user@mac_computer would tunnel port 5900 from the local computer to 5900 on the remote mac_computer. Port 5900 is the default VNC port. On your local host you would then connect VNC to localhost to see the remote computer. We can move this discussion to chat if you want to discuss it more. – cftarnas Sep 07 '11 at 18:27
Nope, don't even need to do that. I'll detail this more in a bit. – daviesgeek Sep 07 '11 at 18:29
let us continue this discussion in chat – daviesgeek Sep 07 '11 at 22:30
I documented this in a blog post – daviesgeek Sep 07 '11 at 22:31
I'm having trouble getting chat to work with my google auth - looking into it now. In answer to your question in the chat, the -L flag to SSH does tunneling. (-X does port tunneling for X windows). – cftarnas Sep 08 '11 at 01:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 07 '11 at 16:02

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You might be able to connect a VNC server and client tunneled through ssh, and view an app remotely that way.

answered Sep 07 '11 at 16:02

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How would I go about doing that? – daviesgeek Sep 07 '11 at 17:31

How can I re-route Cocoa applications through ssh -X?

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