Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:25:11 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Effective method of 'connecting' two X servers ... Message-ID: <20D1F843A3FE37628262BB38@fserv.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20070723105639.56lck0ckgg4cs8gg@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <7AE9A2282460B106CFDED571@fserv.hub.org> <20070723105639.56lck0ckgg4cs8gg@webmail.leidinger.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Using Synergy, works like a charm, thanks ... will most likely pull in my Windows laptop as a third yet, so that I don't have to get/use flash under Unix :) - --On Monday, July 23, 2007 10:56:39 +0200 Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote: > Quoting "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> (from Mon, 23 Jul 2007 > 02:36:25 -0300): > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> Since it appears I'm going to have to wait for proper nVidia driver >> support for >> amd64, I'm goign to attach my second monitor to my other machine, and start X >> on it ... but, what is the cleanest method of connecting the two so >> that I can >> use keyboard/mouse from my main screen on the second one? >> >> I used to have a Windows box as second screen (laptop), and used x2vnc to go >> from screen-to-screen, allowing me to cut-n-paste, etc ... so I'd like to do >> something like that, except from FreeBSD-to-FreeBSD, getting the >> laptop out of >> the mix :) > > At work I use synergy to connect a Solaris and a Windows box. AFAIK it's > available in the ports too. This way you could even use the 2 screens + your > laptop... > > The setup is straight forward, and it recovers from connection losses. > > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- > If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. > -- Edward A. Murphy Jr. > > http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 > http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGpXEf4QvfyHIvDvMRApA/AJ9QtKDExqR1frQF9Pl8pxukcvR+EQCfd+tc BPtVTnnOekB8Eq1qsVjJP1M= =MJTa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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