Does anyone use X11 forwarding with Android devices, so that they can access their UI apps remotely?
If so, what apps do you use and what issues have you run across?
There’s a “MobaXterm ssh” app and while I do love that app on other OS’s it doesn’t seem to be made by the same company so I don’t really trust it
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After years of looking at this and working with x11 forwarding off and on. Honestly, just setup a VNC server and use the plethora of VNC clients for android. In my environment it performs better, and significantly easier to maintain. For my desktop I even find myself just using Steam Remoteplay if I need actual GPU performance over the internet.
Virtualgl +VNC is excellent if you get it working.
This might work:
- install an x server app in your phone (e.g. XSDL) and start it
- install Termux from f-droid (the one in play store hasn’t been updated due to changes in play store policy that prevents Termux package manager from working)
- in Termux, run something like
DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 ssh -Y user@hostname
