Re: ssh X forwarding and google-chrome

Gregory Edigarov wrote:

> Hello, everybody
>
> does anybody know if there is any tricks?
>
> In my office pc (currently linux) I have google-chrome installed, and I
> absolutely need to access it from home.
>
> "ssh -Y <work pc> google-chrome" just shows an empty and blank window,
> no menu, no address bar.
> May be there is some command line flags I am not aware of?
>
> Thank you.


Unless you have 1 Gigabit or higher ssh -Y will be sluggish. Just use

x11/x2goclient

https://openports.pl/path/x11/x2goclient

if you can install x2goserver on your work desktop. It is an
insecure Perl wrapper around NX NoMachine protocol which is just
cleverly compressed ssh -Y. NoMachine used to be free for up to 2
clients but no longer.

Cheers,
Predrag

P.S. You should never use ssh -X (insecure X tunneling on non-local
networks).