I'm easily amused

[mdlbear]

Didn't get much done today -- spent the morning at home waiting for a FedEx shipment that didn't show up until after the flower_cat got back and I'd already left for work. But I didn't know that at the time, so I spent the morning beating my head against Windows printing, and failing to install OpenOffice due to a corrupted download.

But when I did get to work and got through all my email and web reading, I finally got around to doing something I'd been meaning to do for a while, and installed x2vnc on my desktop machine, along with OSXvnc on my ageing Mac laptop. (I picked up a stand for it over the weekend -- that was my excuse.) Worked perfectly.

What x2vnc does is to put up a 1-pixel-wide window along one edge of your X display. When you move your mouse into it, it grabs the mouse events, hides the cursor, and ships mouse and keyboard events over to the VNC server it's linked to. Effectively it joins two displays on two different machines along one edge. There's one called x2x that works better if both machines are running X.

It wasn't until much later this evening that I realized I had OOo on a CD, a copy of The Open CD.

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[ashi.livejournal.com]

Wow, I shall have to play with x2vnc.