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Hi. I'm pretty new to unix, but I was wondering if there was a way to either through xterm or other use a network keyboard?

what I would like to be able to do is open an xterm on another computer and then have my keyboard input from the server displayed in that xterm. Im sure this is posible. For instance I could right I driver for the second computer that tells it to get it's keyboard from the network jack, but this seems very cumbersom. Is there any easy way to do this?

I'm afraid your question doesn't make alot of sense. 'xterm' is an X11 terminal application which can be run in a graphical environment once you are logged onto a machine.

Perhaps you could clarify?

Sorry for the confusion. I sort of combined two tracks I was thinking along. What I want is a setup where I type on a keyboard on one computer and the output shows up on another. I know there are programs like xmx that have redundant displays, but that is not what I'm trying to do. There were two ways I thought there might be a solution:

1. The Hardware (sort of) Solution: I thought it might be posible to do something like define the default keyboard as the device file of another computer. I am new, so I don't know exactly how I'd do it, but i could mount a network path as the /dev file.
Along the same line I thought it might be posible to define the monitor as an aditional local display monitor somehow and use it that way(It is actually atached by a serial cable as well as cat 5).

2. The Software Solution: I thought there might be a way to make xterm, or the xserver more likely, do the work for me. I am, after all, sending an xterm window to this monitor. So I thought there might be some way to set up the term so that eventhough it was displayed in comp 2 it took it's keyboard input from comp 1.

I don't know enough yet about either track to actually be able to do it, so I was wondering if there was a way to do it along those lines, or another method that might work aside from writing a new driver all together.

You could use something like "talk" (man talk).

bakunin

My impresion is that talk is more of a messaging system rather than a means for using a remote display like a local one. I want something that will allow me to use the second display as a terminal. Also I don't really want local echo, or even a local window open if I can avoid it.