How to start a new Xsession for SSH forwarding?

Question

I want to forward an Xsession over ssh to another system, but I get this error:

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
    If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
    and start again.

I don't want to kill the currently running Xsession. How can I start a new Xsession for ssh forwarding?

Running Ubuntu 12.04 on both client and server.

You used to be able to drop to a command line and run startx :1 to start a second session. — Mordoc, Aug 23 '13 at 17:52
@Mordoc, I found I can start a new xsession over ssh using `startx -- :1`, though I still couldn't figure out how to forward GUI applications. — Rucent88, Aug 27 '13 at 14:56

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 29 '13 at 16:15

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As an alternative solution to your problem, you can reuse the existing display :0 for running applications.

DISPLAY=:0 ssh -X username@192.168.0.100

edited Aug 29 '13 at 16:15

Seth

answered Aug 29 '13 at 02:34

Sepero

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