HowTo: Connecting to Remote X11 Host from a Mac

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I want to log into my home Linux box from my work laptop, which is a Mac. I also what to use all the tools I have grown comfortable, particularly vi/vim/gvim while on my home system. This requires X11 to work on the Mac. Here I show you how this is done on the Mac using XQuartz, Apple's version of the X server.

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