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07-28-2005

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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.

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setupcon

SETUPCON(1)						    Console-setup User's Manual 					       SETUPCON(1)

NAME

       setupcon - sets up the font and the keyboard on the console

SYNOPSIS

       setupcon [OPTION]... [VARIANT]

DESCRIPTION

       setupcon  is  a	program for fast and easy setup of the font and the keyboard on the console.  Most of the time you invoke setupcon without
       arguments.  The keyboard configuration is specified in ~/.keyboard or  /etc/default/keyboard.   The  font  configuration  is  specified	in
       ~/.console-setup  or  /etc/default/console-setup.   Consult  keyboard(5)  and  console-setup(5) for instructions how to configure these two
       files.

       If you have to switch often between different encodings, keyboards or languages, you can prepare several  alternative  configuration  files
       for setupcon.  Suppose that most of the time you will use Greek language with Greek keyboard layout, but sometimes you need to type in Ger-
       man with German keyboard layout.  In this situation you should customize the main configuration	files  (keyboard  and  console-setup)  for
       Greek.	Create also alternative configuration files for German named keyboard.german and console-setup.german.	Then in order to configure
       the console for Greek you will simply run the command with no arguments: setupcon and in order to configure the console for German you will
       use setupcon german.

OPTIONS

       -v, --verbose
	      Be more verbose.	 Use this option if something goes wrong or while experimenting with the configuration files.

       -k, --keyboard-only
	      Setup the keyboard only, do not setup the font.

       -f, --font-only
	      Setup the font only, do not setup the keyboard.

       --force
	      Do  not  check  whether  we are on the console.  Notice that you can be forced to hard-reboot your computer if you run setupcon with
	      this option and the screen is controlled by a X server.

       --save This option can be useful if you want to use setupcon early in the boot process while /usr is not yet mounted and the required  data
	      are  not	available.   This option will make setupcon copy the required files in /etc/console-setup/ in order to make them available
	      before /usr is mounted.  If you use setupcon early in the boot process, then you should run it with this option after  every  change
	      of the console configuration.

       --save-only
	      The  same as --save, but does not setup the keyboard and the font.  This option can be useful if you want to save the required files
	      while the screen is controlled by a X server.

       -h, --help
	      Display usage information.

       VARIANT
	      Specifies which configuration file to use.  By default the configuration files of setupcon are named console-setup and keyboard  but
	      if  you  use  e.g.  chukchi as VARIANT then the configuration files will be console-setup.chukchi and keyboard.chukchi.  In this way
	      you can have easy access to several different configurations - for example one for the Chukchi language and another for the  default
	      configuration.

FILES

       ~/.console-setup
       ~/.keyboard
       /etc/default/console-setup
       /etc/default/keyboard
       /etc/default/console-setup.VARIANT
       /etc/default/keyboard.VARIANT
       /etc/console-setup/

SEE ALSO

       keyboard(5), console-setup(5)

console-setup							    2011-03-17							       SETUPCON(1)