---------------------------------------- X11Forward August 16th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- 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.