Opening and controlling a window over ssh

Question

I have a raspberry pi to which a monitor is connected. I have ssh'd into this raspberry pi from another box. What I want to do now is:

Open a window (ie a browser) on the monitor connected to the raspberry pi
Be able to interact with this window using the mouse and keyboard connected to the box I am using

All via the box from which I've ssh'd into the raspberry pi. What is the simplest way to do this?

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

Not sure how on-topic we are here given this is more about the non-Ubuntu Raspi than the local Ubuntu computer... But given that this also applies to a pure Ubuntu→Ubuntu set up and in the interest of being useful, I'll plod on...

You just need to point to the right DISPLAY when you run graphical things over SSH so in your case:
```
DISPLAY=:0 firefox
```
To then control the application is then a little harder. I found out about x2x a couple of weeks ago and it seems to do the job. You'll need to install x2x on the raspi and run a separate SSH session out to it like so:
```
ssh -X raspi x2x -to :0
```

Opening and controlling a window over ssh

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