2nd keyboard/mouse controlling VNC

Yann Renard yann.renard.mailing-lists "at" tiscali.fr
Wed May 18 09:01:00 2005


Michael Pardee wrote:
> For very poor computer users (schools in developing countries, etc.), I
> think it should be possible to virtually "split" a monitor and computer by
> running two vnc sessions, one on each half of the screen.  To make that
> possible it will require sending the output of a secondary keyboard and
> mouse directly to a vnc session and disabling the local vncviewer pointer.
>  I have looked at rfb proxy and similar programs, but I can't find
> anything out there that will grab the signals from the non-primary
> keyboard/mouse and send it's output to a VNC server.  Besides the screen
> splitting case, it could come in handy in a couple of other scenarios as
> well.
> Anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this?
> Thanks,
> Mike

Excuse this off-topic question... I'm not really sure about what you 
want to do. Do you really want to use 3 computers (one server and two 
clients) for 2 users having half a screen each where you could use these 
3 computers for 3 users having a whole screen each ? Sounds like crazy 
but this is what I understand reading your email :)

Regards,
Yann