> I'm currently set up such that I can ssh into my machine at work from home > and all works well as long as I stay within the console session. However, > I'm on a dialup line (no DSL yet...) and use IP masquerading, which appears > to prevent X clients on my work box from connecting to the X server here at > home. > If you log in via ssh, then you should be able to start x-applications out-of-the-box. ssh creates a proxy x-server and thus forwards any x-connection through the encrypted connection opened by the masqueraded host. if it does not work, then check, if "ForwardX11 yes" is in your ~/.ssh/config. if it is, then check, how $DISPLAY is set on the remote machine after ssh-login. it should be something like <remotemachine>:10.0 - if it is not, then ssh does not forward the x-connections ... don't ask me, why.
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