Can I use the GUI wallet over SSH?

Question

I SSH into a Linux 16.04.2 LTS box, where I run monerod and monero-wallet-cli from the command line. Can I run the GUI similarly? Do I need to I need to add any args to the ssh command? Do I need to add any args to the monero-wallet-gui command?

Answer 1

As an alternative to what Moroccan Engineer suggested, if you really want to have the GUI binary running on the remote machine, you could SSH with X forwarding so that you can open graphical applications over SSH, using the -X flag. For more info see here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12755/how-to-forward-x-over-ssh-to-run-graphics-applications-remotely

Answer 2

Just change :

ssh XXXXXXX

with :

ssh -L18081:127.0.0.1:18081 XXXXXXX

This means : open a local port 18081, and redirect all messages to 127.0.0.1:18081 in the remote host.

This will be exactly like running monerod in your local computer. So just use the default host in monero-wallet-gui, which is 127.0.0.1