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.