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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> writes:

Peter> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@kimo.fixcomthis.tw> wrote:
>> Just curious, got one [15"!] monitor, one keyboard, but 2 people.
>> How would the pros deal with that?  Let's pretend I'm in a
>> disadvantaged

Peter> One of you cleans dishes while the other one uses the keyboard
Peter> and monitor.

Certainly Linux/GNU is up to the challenge?

>> country.  [Actually me and wife are browsing at the same time... in
>> his & hers windows occupying left & right halves of screen: best I
>> can think of so far.]

Peter> Who uses the keyboard?

For the simplest case, we are both browsing different long documents,
me looking at the left side of the screen, she at the right.  But the
"focus" [control] of the space bar to page down needs to be switched
back and forth say via ALT TAB or mouse clicks [netscape under icewm
on mandrake].  Maybe I can assign, say, the spacebar to talk directly
to the left netscape [or whatever] window, and some keys of the
numerical keypad to talk to the right netscape window.  Maybe emacs
'frames'[?] can do this?

Or perhaps have I stumbled upon a immutable cardinal rule of X or
whatever: "the current window owns all the keyboard, all or nothing"?

I bet top and bottom short and fat windows are better than right and
left skinny and narrow windows... but still how to control them
independently, without having to pass control back and forth?

Maybe a bind key 1 to "go to window 1 and page down", and
bind a second key to "go to window 2 and page down"...

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard MacDonald <dickmac32@home.com> writes:

Richard> For a bit over $100 you can get a little black box (it may
Richard> not be black) that will set you up to use two monitors and
Richard> two keyboards.  Check the ads. PC World this month reviewed
Richard> it.  

Though it goes beyond the challenge of seeing how two people could use
one monitor at the same time (sort of like a concept for the Linux
Ecology HOWTO http://home.snafu.de/wehe/eco_linux.html), I remember
university days where several monitors were plugged into one unix
mainframe... but I guess PC's only have one jack...
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