working in X11

There are two ways to go about it:

1) Launch another local xterm, running a local shell, and then connecting with ssh to your remote host.

2) From the original remote session, launch a remote shell, by typing 'xterm &'. This option, however, might be slower than the first one, because all the window information has to arrive from the remote machine.

 

just add an & for whatever command you want to run.

so if you want to open up pico do: pico text.txt &
that should open up pico in a new window and let u use that ssh session for something else