x2x definitive guide

vmiheer

miheer vaidya

Posted on June 27, 2021

x2x definitive guide

So you want to share your clipboard across the machines? x2x is free software to do that over x server protocol.

  1. Install x server and x2x on both machines. On windows/wsl use these instructions.

  2. On remote system, if you use gdm, edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf to add:

    [security]
    DisallowTCP=false
    

    and restart gdm sudo service gdm3 restart.

  3. Find out on which display X server is running on remote machine.

    # on remote machine,
    $ echo $DISPLAY # This command assumes that you are logged in using some GUI method, vnc/rdp/nomachine etc.
    # Let's say it was 0.0
    
  4. On local machine issue below command:

 # on local machine:

 $ ssh -XC remoteMachine x2x -east -to :0.0
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References

  1. Ubuntu wiki x2xHowTo
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vmiheer
miheer vaidya

Posted on June 27, 2021

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