Well, ... my reporting ... On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Javier Barroso <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 computers, each with a screen and a graphics card. I would > like to use the second computer only like an graphic card + screen, so > I can work with only one keyboard and one mouse which are connected to > the first computer, and I would like to awesome view two screens (one > local and one remote) > > Of course second computer, I will use though ssh ... > > I will take a look to xdmx project (inside Xorg), but I'm afraid it > would not work (I will post if I success with it), maybe I will have > to use that in combination with synergy (or not, I'm not sure) > > Other possibility is starting awesome with DISPLAY=xxx:0 where xxx is > the ip of the second computer, using synergy to use only one keyboard, > but doing that I lose the possibility of change windows from one > screen to other, and I'm not sure If I can run both awesome instances > (I think this should not be a problem, but who knows ?) > > So, any advice ? > > Thanks !! Hi,
Finally I tried various mode, but no one convince me, lets call B to the second computer (remote), and A to the local: 1. B running local X :1, with /etc/X1.hosts allowing A, and synergy 1.4.7 for sharing keyboard / mouse (1.3.8 crashed). From A launch DISPLAY=:1 awesome. This works but if you have a good network connection, I have 100 Mbps switch which is not allowing me play nice. Network is the bottleneck. And no possibility of changing window from A to B and viceversa 2. B running local X:1 with /etc/X1.hosts allowing A, and synergy 1.4.7 for sharing keyboard / mouse (1.3.8 crashed). From B launch awesome, and use export DISPLAY, same thing than 1. 3. Xdmx : I really didn't get good results with, (I would like that xdmx :2 -display localhost:0 -display B:0 , and then DISPLAY=:2 xeyes to work, but I didn't success) 4. Local B X:1 and local awesome, using xpra start :2 --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:5000 inside A, and Xpra attach tcp:A:5000 -z3 for sharing windows between computers. That works more or less, but I think with gigabit network card I would be more happy. Now with compression, bottleneck is in CPU. If I find a switch of Giga or a compression level for xpra which allow me to work like in local environment, I would write a rc.lua config file which would manage "xpra start / xpra attach" to replace Mod4-"o" keystroke. I think creating an xpra instance for each application is a good possibility, and we could maintain such application list in an directorio in ~/.xpra/awesome.DISPLAY.tmp or somethink like. I hope that help to somebody, and too, somebody could give me any hint about ! Thanks ! -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
