On 4 Jun 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Well, I was thinking about something much simpler.  At every
> conference I've been to, we loose a good few minutes per hi-tech talk
> while the chairman (sweating with nervousness) tries to connect the
> speaker's laptop to the projector.  Now that 16 Megs of memory and a
> MIPS or ARM processor come for free, and that every laptop has an
> Ethernet port, it would make sense to have X11 in the projector.
> Which, in turn, would create a market for Keith's ``run Windows over
> X'' software.

Given that the (digital) X network traffic is likely to be much
smaller than the (analog?) video bandwidth, I agree that the projector
should have an ethernet port instead (OK as well for now) as a VGA
connector.

This simplifies what to do with the joystick/mouse many projectors
now come with (no more plugging the projector's mouse lead into your
laptop) but does mean that they need a keyboard or similar device
with which to log into the laptop.

Can I put in a plea for an ssh client as an alternative to xdm ?

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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