display raspberry pi apps on your mac with x11
I often use my raspberry pi headless (without a monitor) but there are some apps, like pd, that really need graphics.
If you have x11 set up on your mac, it can receive graphical instructions from the pi over your network, so you can run raspberry pi apps in windows on your mac.
install x11
x11 used to be bundled with osx. Now, you have to get it from macforge
connect to pi
use the -X flag to tell ssh to listen for x server instuctions.
ssh -X raspberrypi.local -l pi
run apps
once you’re connected, any graphical apps you run in that ssh session will show up on your mac. Cool!