This document is a WORK IN PROGRESS.
This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!

`x2x`¶

x2x allows the keyboard and mouse on one ("from") X display to be used to control another ("to") X display.

Reference(s)

Table of contents¶

apkaptdnfemergenix~~pacman~~ AUR (by hand)yumxbpszypper

TODO

# apt install x2x

TODO

# emerge -a x2x

on NixOSon non-NixOS

# nix-env -iA nixos.x2x

# nix-env -iA nixpkgs.x2x

Install with AUR:

$ mkdir -p ~/apps/aur-apps
$ cd ~/apps/aur-apps
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/x2x-git.git
$ cd x2x-git
$ makepkg -is

TODO

Enable ssh X11 forwarding:

# vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config
    > ...
    > Host *
    >   ...
    >   ForwardX11 yes
    > ...

$ ssh -YC username@123.123.123.123 x2x -west -to :0.0

-Y option for trusted X11 forwarding (no security control) and -C option for data compression

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