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

[Peter Teuben]

This might be overkill, but what about using vnc

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, 15:05 Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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