Re: [school-discuss] Remotely controlling Keyboards and mouse

[Doug Loss <drloss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a UseCase as follows:
>
> The classroom has a server for the Teachers and Workstations (fully
> functional PCs) for the students. The teachers are required to
> control/activate/deactivate the keyboards and the mouse of the
> Workstations as and when required during demonstrations and the like.
>
> I looked at http://okvm.sourceforge.net/ but would like to know if there
> are other means of doing this.
http://www.infa.abo.fi/~chakie/xremote/

"xremote is a simple tool that lets you grab the mouse and keyboard of 
another machine and control them with your local mouse and keyboard. It 
creates a form of remote control of other machines.

"You do need to be able to see the remote screen in order to know what 
you are doing. While the remote machine is being controlled all local 
mouse-clicks or keyboard presses are discarded, i.e. not seen by the 
local applications. So every mouseaction or keyboard klick ends up on 
the remote display."

xremote hasn't been modified for quite a while; I don't know what it's 
status is.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/software/xmx/

" XMX is a standalone utility for sharing an X Window System 
<http://www.camb.opengroup.org/tech/desktop/x/> session on multiple X 
displays. It allows users to see and interact with the same applications 
at the same time from different locations. XMX takes advantage of the 
networked nature of the X Window System by acting as an intermediary 
between X clients and X servers. In this way, XMX works with any X 
clients and any X servers, without the need to modify either.

" XMX provides a WYSIWIS (What You See Is What I See) environment; it 
paints the same graphics on all participating displays. The shared 
client applications appear to each participant in a /virtual root 
window/ which is subject to local window management. In this way, the 
shared X session coexists with each user's private X session."

This isn't quite what was asked for, but perhaps it would be useful.

Doug