[CLUE-Talk] backgrounding ssh-X sessions

[David Anselmi]

Dave Price wrote:
> Clueful-ones
> 
> I am happy to be able to run X-applications remotely thru an ssh tunnel.
> What I would like to do is 'background' the task that sets up the
> tunnel.
> 
> What I mean is this ... if i run:
> 
> ssh davep at dp.kinaole.org "jpilot"
> 
> I get my palm desktop on the remote screen, but the xterm that launched
> the ssh session is 'tied up' until I exit jpolot.  If this were a local
> X-app, I would launch it with "jpilot &" and get the xterm prompt back
> right away.

The man page says to use -f to ssh.  I do that for port forwarding using 
-L and it works fine.  Ought to be the same mechanism fo X forwarding.

Dave