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“Editor’s note–X11 for Mac OS X offers a complete X
Window System for running X11-based applications on your Mac. This
implementation of X11 includes a window server, libraries, and
basic utilities such as xterm. In this article, Dan Benjamin shows
you how to install and use the latest beta offered by
Apple.”
as a reader
commented you can do away with all the xhost foo and just type, ‘ssh -X username@machinename.com’. this is great for me because my aging kickaround linux box is about to go headless because the monitor is on its very, very, very last leg.