From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 07:22:10 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 6A9ED37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C769A43F85 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:22:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) id h2QFM9BG039645; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:22:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:22:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Dragoncrest Message-ID: <20030326152209.GD12342@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030326072738.01d33380@pop.voyager.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030326072738.01d33380@pop.voyager.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-27.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 15:22:11 -0000 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 dnelson@allantgroup.com