This program merges the capabilities of x2x and vncviewer. It will allow a machine with an X display and a machine with a VNC server running on it's main screen to act as if they were two displays connected to one machine. When you move your mouse pointer off the screen in a direction of your choosing, the pointer will appear on the other screen instead.
Today's package recommendation comes to us by way of
crazyscot (prompted by the posting about x11vnc).x2vnc is a wonderful remote-control hack. It creates a magic invisible window along one edge of your X display; when you move the mouse into it, it seamlessly appears on the remote system by VNC - and keyboard focus goes with it, naturally.
I use x2vnc at work all the time to control my secondary (Windows) machine - whose monitor is beside my main monitor - using the keyboard and mouse on my Debian box. It's marvellous; I don't need to keep the second machine's keyboard and mouse on my desk, but I am looking directly at that machine's monitor. I am not cluttering up my X display with vncviewer windows, nor am I getting the juddering and other display update glitches you typically get from VNC.
A really neat bonus is that it does the Right Thing with the cut+paste buffer between the two displays, in most cases. (I wish it worked on my phone too :) )
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