An answer to your prayers.... Belkin OmniCube do the on screen menu system, using the PrintScreen key...
Simon
-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Toby Jaffey Sent: 27 July 2001 16:23 To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] OT: Keyboards and sugar
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:10:32AM -0700, David Freeman wrote:
Is there anybody on list who can explain what a KVM switch actually does inside, i.e. its not just a simple switch it does somesort of emulation of keyboards and mice.
[snip explanation]
I only wondered as I was thinking of having a go at building one.
A friend of mine had a cool idea for one a few years ago. I don't know if this exists yet, but... a box for controlling several machines with one keyboard would be nice where you can select which machine with a special keypress. So obviously, the magic box would need to understand PS/2, probably not too hard with a PIC chip.
That way you could provide an interface something like "screen" where a hotkey switches to the next session.
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