The death watch for the X Window System has probably started

Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by AnonymousPlanet on Sunday July 07, 2019 @03:11PM (#20377117)

It's not only ssh. I start GUI applications as a different user than the current desktop user constantly. It's a way for me to separate uses from each other. It gives you a huge amount of flexibility.

I do a lot of these things with Linux, you cannot do in Windows:

   - Log in, start an arbitrary program. Then log out, without the program stopping
   - Start a GUI application as a different user than the one logged in graphically
   - Start a GUI application that resides inside a container
   - Start a GUI application in the local LAN over ssh

Take those away and you take away the biggest edge Linux has over Windows.

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by therein on Sunday July 07, 2019 @04:26PM (#20377609)

> Start a GUI application that resides inside a container

I do this all the time to confine an application to a network namespace.

It is great for forcing some GUI applications (for example a browser) through VPN while keeping everything else going over the default route.

This way you can make sure the browser in your network namespace can only use the VPN.

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by blibble on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:04PM (#20377844)

    Start a GUI application as a different user than the one logged in graphically

the xauth command will let you do this (which is what ssh X forwarding does)

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