Xquartz For Mac Yosemite

Oct 30, 2016 ALSO NOTE: Apple are no longer going to provide X11 with Mac OS X! It come with the Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installer. INSTEAD Apple are going to direct Mac users to download exactly what we have here: XQuartz, the source project for X11. So if you like X11, download the latest stable XQuartz and get to work with it! Dec 02, 2012 Advanced Mac users may have noticed that X11 is no longer bundled with OS X, and it’s also no longer available as a separate installation option through Developer Tools. Instead, to run X11 on OS X Mountain Lion (and later), you’ll want to download and install the free XQuartz system, which bundles all the necessary libraries and apps. Jul 24, 2015 How to create USB installer for Mac OS X Step 1: Download installer of OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion We are still able to download Yosemite from Apple store: Go to Mac Apple Store use your Apple ID and login Find and download OS X Yosemite. After downloading, OS X Yosemite Installer will appear in /Applications.

I need to tunnel X Window securely over SSH bases session so that I run X program on my remote Linux/Unix server/workstation and get back display to my Apple Macbook pro laptop. I tried the ssh -X user@server1 and

How To Use Xquartz

ssh -Y user@server2

commands on both OS X Mountain Lion and Apple OS X Mavericks/Yosemite. But, I am unable to use the ssh command with X11.

Can’t load X11 after OS X Yosemite upgrade

You need to delete / remove existing XQuartz server and reinstall it again.

Step #1: Download and Install XQuartz server

Visit this page and download XQuarz server. Once downloaded the XQuarz package, install the server by double clicking the package icon in your Downloads folder. Please follow the instructions on-screen to complete the installations:

Step #2: ssh X11 forwarding syntax

A tunneling protocol is a network protocol which encapsulates a payload protocol, acting as a payload protocol. Reasons to tunnel include carrying a payload over an incompatible delivery network, or to provide a secure path through an untrusted network. SSH is frequently used to tunnel insecure traffic over the Internet in a secure way. Simply type the following command to use X over ssh:

Examples

In this example, login to the Linux based nas01 server as a user called nixcraft:
$ ssh -X nixcraft@nas01
OR
$ ssh -X nas01
You will see XQuartz server in the Dock i.e. a new XQuartz icon sits at the bottom of side of your screen as follows:
To test X11 by running xeyes or xclock or any another GUI application you wish. The syntax is as follows on your remote server:
$ app-name $ /path/to/app-name $ app-name &
In this example, I am running xeyes on remote server:
$ xeyes
Sample outputs:

Edit your ~/.ssh/config file and append the following line and you wouldn’t need pass the -X option to ssh command:

Finally, you can run ssh in the background after running a GUI app as follows:

About the App

App name: XQuartz
App description: xquartz (App: XQuartz.pkg)
App website: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/