From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 06:26:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E7E37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:26:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from grunt24.ihug.com.au (grunt24.ihug.com.au [203.109.249.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE0A43FA3 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:26:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jvender@ihug.com.au) Received: from p1317-apx1.syd.ihug.com.au (localhost) [203.173.139.47] by grunt24.ihug.com.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18yBre-0003XK-00; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:26:51 +1100 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:20:28 +1100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: John Vender To: Dragoncrest , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030326072738.01d33380@pop.voyager.net> Message-Id: <18463184-5F96-11D7-B4F7-00039369D83A@ihug.com.au> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-21.6 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: Looking for a rather interesting program X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:26:57 -0000 On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 11:33 PM, Dragoncrest wrote: > 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. X2VNC maybe? Cheers...John