Running RaspberryPi remotely by forwarding its display to your laptop

If you have a RaspberryPi and want to use it via your laptop, you don't have to restrict yourself to the command line.

Set up raspberry such that it receives an IP address from the router (say 192.168.1.48)

Ubuntu 14.04 by default xinit can be done only by console users, so, switch to console 6 by pressing

Ctrl + Alt + F6

login with your username and password

xinit /usr/bin/ssh -Y pi@192.168.1.48 lxsession -- :1

You might have to configure passwordless login

Ctrl+alt+F8 is where the pi session is

Ctrl+Alt+F7 is where your session is