Or perhaps they mean one computer, one monitor, 2 keyboards and 2 mice. An interesting idea, perhaps sort of like multiplayer split screen games.
The problem would acutally lie in the OS though as all GUIs that I have used have a single focus. It seems as though it may be possible under X with some modifications anybody tried anything like this before? --Angelo On 5/18/05, Yann Renard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Pardee wrote: > > For very poor computer users (schools in developing countries, etc.), I > > think it should be possible to virtually "split" a monitor and computer by > > running two vnc sessions, one on each half of the screen. To make that > > possible it will require sending the output of a secondary keyboard and > > mouse directly to a vnc session and disabling the local vncviewer pointer. > > I have looked at rfb proxy and similar programs, but I can't find > > anything out there that will grab the signals from the non-primary > > keyboard/mouse and send it's output to a VNC server. Besides the screen > > splitting case, it could come in handy in a couple of other scenarios as > > well. > > Anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > Excuse this off-topic question... I'm not really sure about what you > want to do. Do you really want to use 3 computers (one server and two > clients) for 2 users having half a screen each where you could use these > 3 computers for 3 users having a whole screen each ? Sounds like crazy > but this is what I understand reading your email :) > > Regards, > Yann > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
