I don't think what you want to accomplish is anything like what I would like to accomplish. I have two monitors and only one keyboard. I am currently using both monitors with X windows at the same time to display different applications. However, I am dissappointed by the functionality provided by X windows in this regard. X windows was not originally designed for these types of configurations.
I may not completely understand what you are trying to accomplish, but it sounds as though you are simply trying to create two computers that share the same CPU unit. X windows was orginally designed to support configurations exactly like this, and thus the motivation behind having different X displays, such as :0.0 and :0.1. The problem is that an application that is started on display :0.0 cannot generally migrate to :0.1 and vice versa. However, this shouldn't be a problem for what I think you want to do. Of course, I don't know about XFree's implementation of X windows in regards to supporting multiple keyboards, but I thought that this wasn't a problem. Trying to simply save money as you describe may not be worth it. The marginal cost of adding an additional 10 CPU's to your configuration to support each individual monitor is really quite small. You could obtain 10 additional Celeron-class machines with 256MB ram for less than $3000 U.S.D, which would work well enough for most user applications. You could then use the small machines as a terminal to big machines if a certain application needs more processing power. X windows works really well across a local area network. This also has the advantage of eliminating a number of security complications. On the other hand, I would like to modify the X windows to make it *much* easier to implement certain functionality that is not currently available. best, leon _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
