share mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with X11 on your desk

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:49:20PM +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Qui, 2012-11-29 at 18:33 -0500, James Cloos wrote: 
> > >>>>> "SB" == Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com> writes:
> > 
> > SB> Does anyone knows how "share mouse and keyboard between multiple
> > SB> computers with X11 on your desk " ?
> > 
> > If they are all on a local lan, and you can handle the idea of
> > unencrypted traffic, just run X over tcp.
> > 
> > For a more distributed collection of remote clients, or if you require
> > encrytion over the lan, you can either tunnel X over ssh (cf the -X and
> > the -Y options to ssh) or use ipsec to secure at the network layer.
> 
> Not the point , I want share mouse and keyboard , not run a X app of
> other computer in my computer .

This is what I use

  ssh -X othermachine x2x -to :0 -east

despite the unpleasant possibility that a bad WiFi spell can leave me
without control of either machine (because x2x grabs keyboard & mouse).

Marius Gedminas
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