[mythtv-users] strange question: using keyboard over ssh in mythtv

Stef Coene stef.coene at docum.org
Thu Oct 11 12:19:33 UTC 2007


On Thursday 11 October 2007, Ma Begaj wrote:
> hi,
>
> one more question in my series...
>
> I have no keyboard on mythbox. but I am pretty often connected over
> ssh with it thru my laptop.
>
> When I want to modify some things, I have to useon-screen keyboard
> with my remote, and that is not so easy if you want to type a word.
>
> I would like to be able to connect over ssh and to send keystrokes
> from my notebook to a running mythfrontend.
>
> Is there a way to do that? I know I could use X11forwarding, but that
> would start one more mythfrontend session etc.
I run linux on my laptop and I use x2x for that.  It sends all keystrokes and 
mouse movements to a remote X server.


Stef


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