related to prior post, figuring how to talk to different X servers with "ssh -Y"

[Mike Marchywka]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 02:45:52PM -0400, Peter Teuben wrote:
>    is this where you add the lines
>         ForwardX11 yes
>          ForwardX11Trusted yes
>    in your ~/.ssh/config file ?

I have that and it is the problem. Apparently " ssh -x " overrides
it but then I still can't connect and its not clear how to talk to
both in one session. I can get close,  


 xinput --list
Unable to connect to X server
marchywka at marchywka-Latitude-E6510:~$ export DISPLAY=:0
marchywka at marchywka-Latitude-E6510:~$ xinput --list
No protocol specified
Unable to connect to X server


but then further playing with XAUTHORITY based on various 
help websites did not help ( although it may have logged
the guest account off of  the remote session lol).

In actual fact probably the pointers' input to the local X
server will not matter but it will make the login screen
do odd things and I should know how to do this anyway.

Now that I'm hacking USB, if I can dig up a male-to-male
big USB connector I may try to see if I can hack this
digital multimeter I bought that came with a windows
disc that I think I lost. That would give me temperature
or line voltage monitoring etc. I'm amazed how cheap
these things are now it may be easy to setup some basic
lab equipment with little effort now with a USB expander.
 


Thanks.




> 
>    On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:16 AM Mike Marchywka <[mailto:marchywka at hotmail.com]marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      I got my wireless presentation pointer to work but wanted to stop if
>      from acting as an X-input device while attached to a remote machine.
>      So, I determined locally it was easy to
>      play with "xinput." Remotely, with "ssh -Y" all the xinput stuff was
>      coming back to my local machine ( forutnately I had a spare
>      keyboard to plug in once I locked myself out randomly disabling
>      inputs lol ). I wanted to display remote images locally with feh - which
>      works fine - but also play with the X settings on remote machine.
>      What is the easiest way to do this?
>      Thanks.
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