On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 10:21 PM, Daniel M. German wrote:
Max Waterman twisted the bytes to say:
Max> My understanding is that input devices cannot be shared between X
Max> servers without some external help; hence the need for utilities
such
Max> as x2x. Am I missing something? This is what I know from my
several
Max> years of working with X on SGI workstations.
I just tried and it works well. It starts two instances of the server.
Hmm. Wierd.
They are two independent applications.
Well, yes, they would be. Normally (at least on SGI) this isn't
possible. Of course, with SGI machines, you would also need graphics
h/w for each X server too.
Perhaps this is related to their being an intermediate layer....ie
X11.app doesn't talk directly to the i/o h/w (or does it?) as it does
with SGI kit.
See the screenshot here
(particularly, the two icons to the right for X and the two
gnome-terminal in
the middle where I have printed the value of DISPLAY)
Max> Also, can Mac's use multiple keyboards/mice? Just curious....
Yes, it can, just plug them to the USB ports. They work all as the
same, though.
Hmm. Perhaps this is something to do with it. Limitted use having two
keyboards/mouse providing the same input though....it would be nice if
they provided different input, then you could have two people use the
machine at the same time. Might provide some use in some circumstances,
I suppose. I wonder what though....
Max.
Max> Max.
Max> On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 09:32 PM, Daniel M. German wrote:
