mac: access the user display of an X11 program on a remote machine

trying to: access the user display of an X11 program on a remote machine using a mac

this is possible with: drum roll please… mac OS X with X11 forwarding!!! tada!

1. open terminal

2. ssh -X 

   ssh -X root@192.168.8.1

3. Start your remote X11 program and view the user display on your local machine:

   xclock