[rescue] sharing keyboard and mouse

[Steve Sandau]

>>>http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>There's also x2x, although I've no idea how well it works.
> 
> 
> It works quite well. For ex.,
> 
> 'xhost <the "right" machine>'				(on "left" box)
> 'x2x -west -to <the "left" machine>:display_num'	(on "right" box)
> 
> Then take the mouse from the "right" box and keep moving past the left
> hand side of the screen. Magically, you're suddenly driving the left
> screen.
> 
<snip>
> 
> x2x is by far one of my all-time favorite *nix apps.
> 

Thanks for the tip on x2x. I may try that as well. We'll see how 
compiling synergy goes on SPARC NetBSD...

Synergy works pretty well on Solaris and Linux (at home here), but I 
cheated and just grabbed the binaries. The source (at work on Solaris) 
told me I needed pthreads to compile it...

Steve