I would like to know if OSX supports ssh -X
right out of the box?
Using the command launches XQuartz and interestingly both are NOT working:
e.g. displaying pdf
files returning :
evince foo.pdf
** (evince:1341): WARNING **: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=58045ffa2d1f3dc82398e1eb00000008 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon\n
Failed to get bus connection: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=58045ffa2d1f3dc82398e1eb00000008 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon\n
Best Answer
The '-X' parameter to ssh instructs ssh to open an XWindow session, which is why xquartz is launched automatically.
You can ssh to a remote server without -X and interact with it on a command line, however, to forward the XWindow display needs XQuartz.
To debug the problem you are seeing you may want to: