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A long time ago, I frequently used a small X11 utility that allows you to manage multiple systems at the same time.

It worked by opening a small window that had a button you used to "Add" X Clients to it. These would be xterms on different systems for example.

You would then type inside that small window and all keystrokes would be sent to all registered xterms.

This was a real time saver when setiing up multiple systems when writing a script was not worth the trouble.

I can't seem to find it anywhere. I wish I remembered the name but I don't.

Anyone have any clue as what I'm talking about?

clusterssh may not be what you used but might be just what you need.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I gave ClusterSSH a less than fair try (I gave up when I saw what Perl::Tk was) but I used it in a Google search and PConsole also came up. Unlike ClusterSSH, Installing PConsole was breeze and it does do what it sets out to do.

It's not what I used back then but it works.

If anyone knows the original util I was talking about, I'd still like to know what it was.

Thanks for posting that - I couldn't remember PConsole and went searching and found Clusterssh.

It was almost certainly xlax. There's other things out there now, but there weren't back then as far as I know.

xlax is still being supported (by me), and I'm adding features to it. My goal is to make it capable of handling window startup and management (right now startup is handled by an auxiliary script).

For more information, this is it's web page. Other options are also mentioned there.

tom