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Sami Olmari [olmari at netikka.fi]
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:09:02 +0200

Hi, Ireaded your article about 6 seat Linux enviroment.

I have an idea from that, but I don't have anyclue how to do it. I Have Ubuntu 6.10, gnome, and 2 disjointed screens. Now I'd like to bind 2 keyboards, one for each screen, but still use my mouse as of now, jumping to another screen over the edge of monitor. Would that be possible in any way?

Sami Olmari

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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:00:31 +0000

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:09:02AM +0200, Sami Olmari wrote:

    > Hi, Ireaded your article about 6 seat Linux enviroment.
    >
    > I have an idea from that, but I don't have anyclue how to do it. I Have
    > Ubuntu 6.10, gnome, and 2 disjointed screens. Now I'd like to bind 2
    > keyboards, one for each screen, but still use my mouse as of now, jumping
    > to another screen over the edge of monitor. Would that be possible in any
    > way?

Sure, just run two copies of whatever it is you want on each screen. Note that without things like Xinerama support, you won't be able to move windows between screens, but then this can't be a requirement if you don't want the mouse to move between them either. For instance:

    exec fvwm -d :0.0
    exec fvwm -d :0.1

Now, assuming you setup X just to use two monitors without enabling things like Xinerama, such operations tend to happen automatically in my experience, as the above example with FVWM. I couldn't say how GNOME or KDE works in that regard.

-- Thomas Adam

    --
    "Wanting to feel; to know what is real.  Living is a lie." -- Purpoise
    Song, by The Monkees.

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Sami Olmari [olmari at netikka.fi]
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:08:16 +0200

Thanks for the help so far.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough (finnish is my native language).

I have my screens enabled already etc, can't drag windwos to eachother as said, and I know that too.

My point was that I'd like to bind one keyboard to one screen, but have the one mouse jumping across as it is now. mouse cursor alone does change screen just by going over the screen edge. my point here is that I could for example play full screen game on screen 0 and still be able to write IM with Gaim on another screen.

Current situation is that when I drag the mouse to another sceen, that "session" becomes the one also having my keyboard.

I hope I make any sense to you?

Sami Olmari

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