On Thursday 01 November 2001 07:54 am, David wrote:
> I have two computers testing cooker stuff. I share a monitor and
> keyboard between them. I can't share the mouse, cause when X loses the
> mouse, well you know.

> I would figure that XFree86.org would be the best place, but maybe
> someone knows a trick. Think asking XFree86.org to work on this would
> produce any results or would just be a waste of time?

Probably produce results. However, the issue might lie with GPM. Perhaps GPM 
or X could reset the mouse if it sees much incoming gibberish or loses a 
signal like DTR, then sees it again?

> Again, hate to say it, but you can do this in Windows, but Windows
> works differently. I would think it wouldn't be that hard to do, the
> keyboard is shared and it doesn't have a problem switching between the two.

Acutally, I wish the keyboard wasn't so firmly nailed into the console code. 
Running multiple users on one machine would be much easier then.

Cheers; Leon

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