Re: remote keyboard

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Raphael Jacquot wrote:

> P.Manohar wrote:
> > " I am planning to have remote keyboard to control the operations on a
> >  particular target. To explain in detail, I will have a PC with keyboard,
> >  mouse etc and this PC will be connected to another PC(Remote) via
> > Ethernet.
> > Instead of using the local keyboard input, I want sent the keyboard keys
> > from the remote system (another PC via Ethernet) and use it as if it from
> >  the local keyboard.
> >
> > My Plan
> >  I am planning to use the Linux keyboard driver and read the keyboard
> > buffer
> > from the remote PC and send it to the target PC, and in the target PC
> >  whatever the key code I have received through the Ethernet I will put it
> > into the local keyboard buffer using the Linux keyboard driver IOCTLs.
> >
> >  Can anybody tell me is this acceptable "

VNC would probably be slightly more expedient.

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