Thank you, but I already solved everything I expressed above. I had to set the DISPLAY variable before ssh-ing into the Pi. I have made a further step forward; I got that Xnest is a bit obsolete, so I switched to Xephyr and many other problems got solved. Now I have another inconvenience with Xmodma...

If I got it correctly, X forwarding works only for single applications, and not entire window managers. So, Xnest is the way to go. I had to run Xnest with Xnest :1 & on my Macbook, set the environment DISPLAY variable to :1, and then everything worked, exept i3 which is not showing text, but I'll f...

I am trying to install a window manager on my Raspberry PI running on Arch Linux from my Macbook with OSX 10.9 and Xquartz. I am using a SSH connection started with ssh -Y pi@pi Running xeyes works like a charm - the eyes appear on my screen in their own window. I tried to install i3 and ratpoison. ...