Single input to multiple devices across local network?
Stephen Unwin (1516) 154 posts |
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but finally got around to asking the question. |
Rick Murray (539) 13850 posts |
That would be cool, especially if you have a panel of monitors. But I suspect it might require some sort of custom hardware to track mouse movements in each supported operating system and report back when the mouse has hit the top of the screen. You will need feedback from each OS concerned because of two things – not all OSs treat the mouse speed as being identical (you can configure it on RISC OS and Windows, probably Linux too though I’ve not looked) and secondly because some operating systems try to do clever things like inertia motion (where the pointer will cover greater distance if you move it quickly). |
Adrian Lees (1349) 122 posts |
This is something that I have a particular need for, and it can all be done as driver software. I would recommend to anyone who tackles this before – if ever – I get around to giving it a whirll, that they consider implementing a port of to RISC OS, so that it can be used in conjunction with non-RISC OS machines too. Furthermore there is source code available. |
Fred Graute (114) 645 posts |
Have a look at KMSwitch by Thomas Milius. |