[mythtv-users] Controlling a Frontend from a Laptop

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 1:49, rick schultz wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2005 1:39 PM, Joseph A. Caputo <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > You could also try x2x (or osx2x if it's a Mac laptop running OS X).
> 
> For the sake of the archives: xremote works, too.
> 
> http://www.infa.abo.fi/~chakie/xremote/
> 
> It works well under OS X (running the OSX X11 server).  It's like x2x,
> only instead of mousing off the screen to control the other machine,
> all X events are sent until a user-definable key is hit.

I'm pretty sure that's how osx2x works as well... IIRC you don't need to 
be running the OS X X11 server, and there's a hot-key to switch your 
mouse/keyboard to/from local/remote control (that's the most '/'s I've 
ever used in a sentence that didn't contain a file path :-D )

-JAC