Re: [OT] ish - Remote keyboard/mouse s/w?

[David Greaves <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad you found something :)

For others:
I do this from a linux destop using a couple of apps called:
x2vnc
and
x2x

The effect is that you have say, 3 screens for 3 machines, side by side:

WinXP Laptop : Linux : Mac

there is one mouse and keyboard and you use the mouse to focus the keyboard
onto
each screen.
WinXP runs VNC
Mac runs X and has xhost +
Linux runs "x2vnc --west WinXP:0" and "x2x --east
Mac:0.0"

They work by having an invisible 1 pixel wide window at 1 or more screen
edges.
When you move your mouse to the left it takes your mouse movements (and
keypresses) and sends them via VNC or X to the screen to your left.

Because there is no redisplay it's just like a KVM.

It's quite spooky just how integrated they are - especially 'cos
cut'n'paste
works...

Davi
PS Mac for example. I assume it uses X.

Paul Gale wrote:
> Multiplicity seems the best - thanks for the pointers, I can hopefully
resume full working again :)
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of Paul Gale
>> Sent: 25 July 2007 12:14
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] ish - Remote keyboard/mouse s/w?
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>> Ah excellent - thanks Jim. Good old Wikipedia :)
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>> I'll take a look at some of those products...
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>> Paul.
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf
>>> Of Jim Noble
>>> Sent: 25 July 2007 11:47
>>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] ish - Remote keyboard/mouse s/w?
>>>
>>> Paul Gale wrote:
>>>> Thanks Jim - but I don't want any form of remote viewing
software
>> at
>>> all - simply a software solution to share a keyboard/mouse
amongst
>>> several PC's as Synergy does. The remote viewing wouldn't work
anyway
>>> as the PC's I'm controlling are all local and directly
connected to
>> LCD
>>> panels plus (the big one) are running demanding video/graphics
apps
>>> that just don't work well over a remote desktop style
environment.
>>> Thanks for the pointer though.
>>> Ah, I get it now. You want a (s/w) KM switch, not a KVM :-)
>>>
>>> Spotted this:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch#Software_alternatives
>>>
>>> Jim
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