In the last episode (Mar 26), Dragoncrest said: > Friend of mine has a rather interesting setup on his machine that I > would like to have on mine. Apparently what it is, he has a program > that allows the mouse and keyboard to automatically switch between > two computers. So as soon as the mouse moves off the screen on one, > it jumps on the screen on another one. The computer who has the > mouse on its screen gets access to the keyboard. This program is > supposedly able to control up to 4 machines via a network using one > mouse and one keyboard and even possibly one monitor for all four of > them with an optional setting. There's supposed to be programs that > allow you to do this (both for linux/bsd and for windows should you > happen to have a windows box in that mix) and I'd love to set those > up on my machine, but I don't know what they would be and my friend > is gone to another country for several months so I can't ask him. :( > Anybody know what this setup is? I know it's not VNC. That much is > obvious. It has something to do with the desktops in xwindows...I > think. Not totally sure though. Any info is more than welcome. > Thanks.
It's probably one or more of x2x, x2vnc and win2vnc, depending on which machine the mouse and keyboard are plugged into. ports/x11-servers/x2x ports/x11-servers/x2vnc http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/win2vnc.html -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"