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

[Robin Lewis]

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Will Dickson wrote:
> 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.
>

VNC seems to work quite well (and I'm talking about a VNC server that
lives outside the X binary space, and isn't an X module; you may have
heard of it: X11vnc), so I should imagine they figured out a way of
grabbing mouse X/Y and feeding it to the host rather quickly.

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Robin Lewis
Proud Slackware user
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