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X11Forward | |
August 16th, 2018 | |
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Today I tried in vain to accomplish something that should be | |
relatively simple: to share my clipboard with remote terminal | |
sessions. | |
Here's the scenario I'm in: | |
- I'm using a MacBook Air (work machine) | |
- I mosh to gopher.black (raspberry pi) | |
- I use tmux | |
This shouldn't be so difficult, but it is. Here's a list of | |
problems I've run into (and fixes): | |
- macOS needs X installed first (XQuartz installed) | |
- mosh doesn't seem to do x11 forwarding (used ssh -X or ssh -Y) | |
- remote ssh didn't allow x11 forwarding (edited sshd_config) | |
- local ssh config didn't allow x11 forwarding (edit .ssh/config) | |
After all that, I now successfully can see a $DISPLAY on the | |
remote when I connect! Hooray! | |
But what's this? Copying something with xsel on the remote does | |
a whole load of nothing? Awesome. | |
Somedays I feel like I'm crushing this whole computer thing. Some | |
days I just want to walk out into the woods and build a cabin. | |
I think I'm gonna go read some Thoreau. |