Jeff, You're right. With OSXvnc on OS X laptop and x2vnc on desktop I'm able to move a mouse pointer seamlessly from Linux to Mac. The problem I'm having (definitely with OSXvnc, so not a fink problem) is that the mouse wouldn't go beyond the primary display. No help since I want to control my external display.
This evening I came up with a reasonable solution (dimly remembered from my old SE30 + FPD days). I made the external display the primary display (by dragging title bar in System Preferences : Displays control panel) and OSXvnc now controls it instead. I put laptop display south of external display so when I drag title bar to bottom of primary, most of content shows on laptop. Works like a charm. Wow's the neighbors. If anyone wants a single keyboard and mouse for two machines, this is a good way to go. Thanks, Brian PS: A relevant issue is that gnome-session now appears to crash with two displays. The porthole boot screen shows just fine (centered split between both displays), but when ToolTips pops up (split) XDarwin unexpectedly quits. However, XDarwin is happy when I launch it using Oroboros.app. I can drag emacs or xeyes across displays just fine. Will do some more investigation and try to figure out where it is crashing. On 2/7/02 4:24 PM, "Jeff Whitaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me get this straight - you want to control the OS X box with the linux > box and have the mouse move seamlessly from the X-windows display on the > linux box to the OSX display? The only way this could work is with x2vnc > running on linux and OSXvnc running on OSX. You seem to suggest it > doesn't - this you should take up with the OSXvnc author and/or the x2vnc > people. It definitely won't work the Xvnc running on OSX, since Xvnc > spawns it's own xserver and doesn't control the keyboard/mouse. > > -Jeff > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Brian Schott wrote: > >> I'm having trouble getting my head around the correct way to use x2x or >> x2vnc from a linux box to my shiny new PowerBook G4. What I want to do is >> remote control laptop with Linux desktop keyboard and mouse. With x2x (run >> from Linux machine), I can control mouse and keyboard for X windows , but >> gets no response from dock, native mac windows and can't get to second >> (external) display. If I run OSXvnc, I can remote control mouse and >> keyboard successfully with x2vnc from Linux box, but again can't reach >> second display. Unlike fink vncserver, OSXvnc controls "rootless" root and >> doesn't spawn another X display. Is there any way to make vncserver mirror >> the top-level display (including native apps?). >> >> >> >> Welcome to Darwin! >> [tinman:~] bschott% xdpyinfo >> name of display: localhost:0.0 >> version number: 11.0 >> vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc >> vendor release number: 40199002 >> XFree86 version: 4.1.99.2 >> maximum request size: 4194300 bytes >> motion buffer size: 0 >> bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, MSBFirst, 32 >> image byte order: MSBFirst >> number of supported pixmap formats: 7 >> supported pixmap formats: >> depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 >> depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 >> depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 >> depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 >> depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 >> depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 >> depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 >> keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 255 >> focus: window 0x80000e, revert to None >> number of extensions: 23 >> BIG-REQUESTS >> DEC-XTRAP >> DPMS >> Extended-Visual-Information >> FontCache >> GLX >> LBX >> MIT-SCREEN-SAVER >> MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD >> RECORD >> RENDER >> SECURITY >> SGI-GLX >> SHAPE >> SYNC >> TOG-CUP >> XC-APPGROUP >> XC-MISC >> XFree86-Bigfont >> XINERAMA >> XKEYBOARD >> XTEST >> XVideo >> default screen number: 0 >> number of screens: 1 >> >> screen #0: >> dimensions: 2432x1024 pixels (823x346 millimeters) >> resolution: 75x75 dots per inch >> depths (1): 24 >> root window id: 0x4a >> depth of root window: 24 planes >> number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1 >> default colormap: 0x20 >> default number of colormap cells: 256 >> preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215 >> options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO >> largest cursor: 16x16 >> current input event mask: 0x78000c >> ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask SubstructureNotifyMask >> SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask PropertyChangeMask >> number of visuals: 2 >> default visual id: 0x22 >> visual: >> visual id: 0x22 >> class: TrueColor >> depth: 24 planes >> available colormap entries: 256 per subfield >> red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff >> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits >> visual: >> visual id: 0x23 >> class: TrueColor >> depth: 24 planes >> available colormap entries: 256 per subfield >> red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff >> significant bits in color specification: 8 bits >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> Brian Schott, Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> USC Information Sciences Institute ph:703-812-3722 >> 3811 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 200 fx:703-812-3712 >> Arlington, VA 22203 cell:410-499-7564 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >> _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
