Sean's Blog

I don’t run X applications much, and when I do, I normally run them remotely. Prior to Leopard’s release, you’d have to start X11.app, start Terminal, run “export DISPLAY=localhost:0,” and then do a “ssh -X remote.hostname.” With Leopard—and presumably Snow Leopard—the system takes care of all of that for you, when it detects something trying to make a connection to X. A small, but very cool, time-saver that I had forgotten for a while, apparently.