2nd keyboard/mouse controlling VNC

[Angelo Sarto]

Or perhaps they mean one computer, one monitor, 2 keyboards and 2 mice.

An interesting idea, perhaps sort of like multiplayer split screen games.

The problem would acutally lie in the OS though as all GUIs that I
have used have a single focus.

It seems as though it may be possible under X with some modifications
anybody tried anything like this before?

--Angelo


On 5/18/05, Yann Renard <yann.renard.mailing-lists "at" tiscali.fr> wrote:
> 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
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