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Grant wrote: |
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> I currently have an HDTV hooked up to a desktop computer running |
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> Gentoo and xfce4, all controlled by a wireless keyboard/mouse from the |
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> couch. It's awesome. However, I think the next step is to control |
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> everything from a laptop on the couch. There would be a normal xfce4 |
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> desktop on the laptop, but you could issue certain commands to have |
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> video or audio played through the desktop connected to the TV across |
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> the room. |
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> How would you set this up? Maybe the actual xfce4 session is being |
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> run on the desktop and the laptop uses VNC or NX to control that |
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> session? Is there a way to have certain audio or video launched on |
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> the laptop via VNC or NX, but outputted by the desktop? |
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> |
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> - Grant |
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The easy way is to use a big cursor theme and just use your laptop as a |
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remote keyboard/mouse for your TV. (in addition to stuff like mythweb |
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and the like) |
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Do like so: (assuming tv runs on display ":0", which it most likely does ) |
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Get mythtv or whatever running by auto-login and startup script. Assume |
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that your tv is running as user "tv", hostname "tv". From your laptop: |
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"ssh -Y tv@tv", then "x2x -to :0 -north". This makes the tv-screen look |
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like an extension of your laptop screen, situated above (north) of your |
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laptop. Now whenever you move your mouse up, out of the laptop screen, |
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your laptop keyboard and mouse controls the tv. |
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Some details: |
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You might need to run "emerge x2x" on your tv box first. Also look for |
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packages named something with "cursor". Kde allows you to select cursor |
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theme easily once you have the themes installed. |
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The crusial bit to get your head around: |
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An X session runs on a display, named like ":0" or "localhost:10.0". The |
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default for a standard X session starts at :0, so your tv will most |
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likely be :0. Ssh forwarded displays, xvnc displays etc. will have other |
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values. Check out the DISPLAY environment variable. To be allowed to |
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write to a display you use the xauth system, usually by way of a file |
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name ~/.Xauthority, check "man xauth". Just log in as the user owning |
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the display (as per the .Xauthority file) and issue "export DISPLAY=:0" |
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to make whatever apps you start show themselves on the tv rather than on |
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your laptop. |
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