Environment

client1 – your local machine that you want to view the server’s full gnome X session on.

server1 – the server that will send its X display through the ssh tunnel, to display on client1.

Syntax

Type the following from client side.

Xephyr -ac -screen 1024×768 -reset -terminate 2> /dev/null :1 &

DISPLAY=:1.0 ssh -XC root@server1 gnome-session 2>/dev/null