macosscreen-sharing
I have two macs on the same local network. What I want to do is to ssh into one mac from the other and open GUI windows. I do not want to share the whole screen, just windows I open from the terminal.
Between Linux computers it is possible to do ssh -X user@host, an equivalent to this on mac is exactly what I want.
Is this possible? If so, how?
This feature seems to now exist in Apple Screen Sharing Version 1.5 (481.1)
Edit > Use Shared Clipboard
Or View > Show Toolbar and then select Use Shared Clipboard
This application allows you to use exactly what you have described; the mouse is 'teleported' to the other screen when moving to its edge. It finds computers using Bonjour and sends events over TCP. Note that it is a preference pane utility (found in System Preferences).
Best Answer
Well, if you start an Application that uses X11, just like that :
ssh -X user@hostYou can run most "Linux GUI" X11 applications on mac as described here using docker: How to run a Linux GUI application on OSX using Docker
Make sure to check out XPRA for Mac, too. You can forward X11 apps on mac or forward the whole mac desktop using xpra, to install do
to shadow the desktop
etc.pp.