Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:56:39 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Effective method of 'connecting' two X servers ... Message-ID: <20070723105639.56lck0ckgg4cs8gg@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <7AE9A2282460B106CFDED571@fserv.hub.org> References: <7AE9A2282460B106CFDED571@fserv.hub.org>
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Quoting "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> (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
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