On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul - > > Thanks very much for this help. I've been wanting to be a "real user" of my > XO more and this all helps me get pointed in the right direction. I'm also > hoping the two hours I spend each day working on my XO on the commuter train > will be a tiny little marketing pitch prior to G1G1 Day on November 17!
I know you've been working on Fedora-on-XO lately, so I'd like to know if you are using Gnome, Sugar or both. In case you are using Sugar, I'm sure you'll have useful ideas about how to improve usability. Thanks, Tomeu > On 10/8/08 12:41 PM, "Paul Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> as a follow-on to my "use your XO more" thread, here's a useful >> way of sharing your "main" system's keyboard and mouse (including >> copy and paste) with your XO, in a fairly natural way. these >> instructions assume a linux desktop machine, but you can do this >> with a mac or windows as well. see http://synergy2.sourceforge.net) >> (caveat: i haven't used this very much, but it sure seems promising.) >> >> >> 1) on both your desktop, and your XO, install "synergy": >> "yum install synergy" and/or "apt-get install synergy" >> >> 1a) on the XO, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and comment out this >> line in the Extensions session, in order to enable the XTEST >> extension: >> #Option "XTEST" "Disable" # Mostly a debugging tool >> after doing this, restart X with ctrl-alt-erase. >> >> 2) on _both_ systems, create the following configuration file. >> you can use the following text verbatim in both places -- >> the names are placeholders: >> >> $ cat $HOME/.synergy.conf >> section: screens >> my_desktop: >> my_xo: >> end >> section: links >> my_desktop: >> right = my_xo >> my_xo: >> left = my_desktop >> end >> >> 3) from the XO, create a synergy tunnel from the XO to your >> desktop. this avoids DNS issues, and avoids needing to >> tinker with your desktop's firewall: >> >> $ ssh -f -N -L 24800:localhost:24800 <real-name-of-your-desktop> >> >> 4) on the desktop, start the synergy server: >> >> $ synergys -n my_desktop >> >> 5) on the XO, start the synergy client. the command connects >> to the server at "localhost", which causes the ssh tunnel >> to be used. >> >> $ synergyc -n my_xo localhost >> >> >> now, when you move your desktop machine's mouse off of the right >> edge of your screen, control will switch to the XO screen. i see >> latency when using the mouse, but it's not too bad. (note that >> the touchpad or mouse that's local to the XO still functions, so >> you can use synergy just to export your keyboard and cut/paste >> buffers.) >> >> paul >> =--------------------- >> paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
