What is the difference using -X or not?

I ssh from T1 (office) to 256k (home dsl) and can do fine on CLI.  If I 
type "nautilus", I get nautilus on the local running from the remote and 
it takes a couple of minutes.  What am I supposed to get if I

ssh -l me <ip> -X

because it doesn't seem to do anything different.  Either that doesn't 
matter or my ssh is not optimized.

tkinias@asu.edu wrote:

>scripsit George Gambill:
>  
>
>>One brave sole (besides myself) is now using Linux (non-LTSP) desktop
>>(RH8).  He seems to be doing fairly well but we do hit some bumps from
>>time to time requiring my attention.  I could install VNC server on
>>his desktop so I could effect fixes from my machine.  Is there a
>>better way???  We are behind a firewall so simplicity is more
>>important than security.
>>    
>>
>
>I frequently just use SSH for this.  I've got a buddy whose home Debian
>box I frequently help him troubleshoot, and there's little I can't do
>through SSH, especially with tunneled X.
>
>I'm typing this e-mail in an xterm running on one of my boxes at home,
>displaying on an X server at work.  (I've got X apps from four different
>boxes on my desktop right now...)  So long as the remote box's sshd is
>set to tunnel X and you remember the '-X' when you invoke the SSH
>client, it's trivial to use.  It's also pretty secure, FWIW.
>
>IIRC VNC lets you actually take control of his desktop, so he can watch
>you move the mouse around and see what you're doing.  That you can't do
>with vanilla SSH and X, but otherwise VNC seems like overkill.
>
>HTH,
>  
>

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