I gonna have to figure out what this all means, (X stuff is pretty new for me)
One thing catched my eye when I was reading man xauth

By default, xauth will use the  file
specified  by  the XAUTHORITY environment variable
or .Xauthority in the user's home directory.

And that is the thing that I wanna change / use.
(change .Xauthority in the user's home directory)
(use XAUTHORITY environment variable)

More on this tomorrow.

Peter


s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Pete:
  
What is the purpose of the var XAUTHORITY?
    

(0) keeling /home/keeling_ echo $XAUTHORITY
/home/keeling/.Xauthority

  
And is there a known way to put that .Xauthority file NOT in /home/user ?
    

$ xauth list                         # if you already have keys, skip next
$ xauth generate .                   # perform if you have no auth file
$ xauth nextract keeling.xa $DISPLAY # should be the only step needed.

Switch to client machine.

$ export DISPLAY=$HOSTIP:0.0         # $HOSTIP == remote IP address/`hostname -f`
$ xauth nmerge $HOSTIP:~keeling/keeling.xa


  
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