[ILUG] ssh and xmodmap

[P at draigBrady.com]

Brendan Halpin wrote:
> I'm running sawfish on Debian, without Gnome/KDE -- minimal and
> pleasant, but it means going back to "the old ways" for some
> settings. Like the left-handed mouse, which I setup with
>         xmodmap -e "pointer=3 2 1 4 5"
> in .bash_profile. 
> 
> However, when I ssh in from my laptop, I don't want this to
> execute. 
> 
> What would be the best way of disabling this? A test in the .bash*
> file ($DISPLAY == localhost?)? An ssh setting?

How about:

[ -z "$SSH_TTY" ] && xmodmap -e "pointer=3 2 1 4 5"

Other variables you could check are SSH_{CLIENT,CONNECTION}.
I found these using `set | grep -i ssh`

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Ctrl+Alt+Backspace      kill X server
Shift+Ctrl+Numlock      Toggle numpad mouse move keys
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