From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 08:59:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F0B16A417; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8749A13C468; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A570BD.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.112.189]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE9E2E138; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:58:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A664B5B5999; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:56:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l6N8ud14077461; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:56:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:56:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20070723105639.56lck0ckgg4cs8gg@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:56:39 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <7AE9A2282460B106CFDED571@fserv.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <7AE9A2282460B106CFDED571@fserv.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.004, required 8, BAYES_00 -15.00, DKIM_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, MIME_QP_LONG_LINE 1.40, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10, SMILEY -0.50) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Effective method of 'connecting' two X servers ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:59:01 -0000 Quoting "Marc G. Fournier" (from Mon, 23 Jul =20 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 =20 > support for > amd64, I'm goign to attach my second monitor to my other machine, and star= t X > on it ... but, what is the cleanest method of connecting the two so =20 > 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 =20 > laptop out of > the mix :) At work I use synergy to connect a Solaris and a Windows box. AFAIK =20 it's available in the ports too. This way you could even use the 2 =20 screens + your laptop... The setup is straight forward, and it recovers from connection losses. Bye, Alexander. --=20 If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. =09=09-- Edward A. Murphy Jr. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137