[sclug] kvm switch (> 2 port, electronic)

[Will Dickson]

ed wrote:
> 
> it might have been possible for the programmer to tell the kvm how to
> move the mouse over IP without having to use system specifics. drawing
> the image is just a matter of moving a bitmap to the form... AFAIK that
> is.

AFAIK this is wrong. Mouse pointers are handled deep in the bowels of X 
for the sake of performance; I'm pretty sure it uses some kind of 
hardware acceleration. The kind of "emulated" mouse pointer you describe 
would, I suspect, be horrifically slow and ugly.

Java-only apps can't reach down into the platform like that, hence the 
platform-specific DLL / .so. Whatever other transgressions the mfr may 
have committed, they're innocent on this one. :-)

Will.