[saboot]

Hmm, I guess I would use a terminal then. I do C++ programming a lot on linux clusters for science. Being able to launch X11 compiled applications remotely would be great. I currently do this using netbeans on windows.

[robotdad]

Interesting, give it a try and let me know how it goes. I'd love to talk to you more about your workflow here. Very interesting.

[aruggirello]

I don't know, but perhaps you could ssh -X and echo "$DISPLAY", then try to export that value instead.