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Should I be able to hear audio using X11 forwarding?

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Mar 15, 202619289 views

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I use a portable virtual box (running Ubuntu) at work. I funnel my web browsing through an ssh link back to my home PC. Today I was playing around with X11 forwarding to access applications running on my home PC. I played around and eventually got the X11 forwarding to work. Xclock launched, open o…

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X11 does has nothing to do with audio. Its purpose is to serve video only. However, it appears that PulseAudio can piggyback onto a forwarded X11 session over ssh and forward the audio as well!

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Should I be able to hear audio using X11 forwarding?

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