Does a vnc software exist like this?

[Lord Banshee]

Ok at work we have laptop's with winxp on them. To do our "real" work we vnc into linux (Suse Ent. 9) machines. My setup has two monitors with one being 1920x1200 and the other 1280x1024 res.

What i would like to do is this:
Have a vnc setup such that each uses both screens. So if i have something open in the right monitor i can drag it to the left monitor.

1) This could be accomplished by having one vnc with a width = 1920+1280, but then i would have un-viewable real estate on the small monitor.

2) Have to two vnc's viewers open to the same vnc location with a width = 1920 +1280*salced ratio) and have the viewer on the right fullscreen no scale (1920x1200) right size. And on the left side scaled to fit the screen and be scrolled to the left of the screen what ever was left. I know crazy.

3) Or something else crazy like that.

What would be nice is the following:
a) Have different linux desktops have different resolution (the linux desktops).
b) Create vnc's point to different linux desktops.
c) Open two vnc viewer one pointing to each desktop and put correlating vnc to the monitor.
d) So if i want to put a window on the other monitor, right click send to desktop 2. Or in some desktops just drag to second desktop.


Ideas? Or am i just looking for the impossible or that of which has yet to be written.

Thanks

 

[xSauronx]

*i think* option 2 will work, but iirc most vnc servers are set by default to only allow one connection and youd have to allow concurrent connections to make it work


edit: do you use *nix/x server on your local system anyway? if so, you could SSH in and just run the remote apps over ssh and do what you like with them on your local desktop

 

[Lord Banshee]

No WinXP on local system "ONLY"

Our vnc's allow multiple connections, that's how we share/work/debug together on a single issue.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

google synergy on sourceforge

 

[Lord Banshee]

Do not see how "Google Synergy" solves my problem. Synergy sounds like a KVM software solution minus video.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
Do not see how "Google Synergy" solves my problem. Synergy sounds like a KVM software solution minus video.

well just from looking at the front page:

users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.

if it allows concurrent connections it might do what you want. say you have 2 connections to VM1, one for each monitor, and this VM has 2 virtual desktops.

without looking too much at synegy, either youll *at least* be able to switch an app from one desktop to another and have it show up on either monitor, with seamless mouse movement between the two, or you might even be able to click and drag the windows themselves to different desktops.

definitely worth looking into.

 

[Lord Banshee]

There is no connection for "programs"? There is no connection between two VM1's except for that they are both on the same machine. What i want is a connection between the two VM's on that one machine. Synergy seems to only connect mouse/keyboard/clipboards.