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user171780
Asked: 2023-09-20 15:55:25 +0800 CST

Nautilus open terminal in remote edit command

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I regularly use the "right click → open in remote terminal" functionality of Nautilus in Ubuntu 22.04. I don't know the command, but it seems it is doing ssh blah@host, and I would like to add the -X flag so I can open GUI applications from this terminal. How can I modify it?

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  1. Best Answer

    Instead of trying to modifying that, you could modify your ~/.ssh/config to enabled ForwardX11 (the config file equivalent of -X) for that host. That will be much simpler to accomplish. For clarity, I'm going to use blah@some-server instead of blah@host.

    Edit ~/.ssh/config, and add:

    Host some-server
    ForwardX11 yes

    (The indentation is optional, but it makes it easier to understand long config files.)

    If you want to specifically match the combination of user blah and server some-server, then use Match instead (as suggested by this U&L answer):

    Match Host some-server User blah
    ForwardX11 yes
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