[ale] Sharing dumb terminal display

[Tucker Balch]

Not sure about control of dumb terminals, but with X you can have
"multi-headed" displays controlled from the same kb and mouse.
That would require you to get another monitor and graphics card.

--Tucker


Brad Dixon said this:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm considering getting a vt100 dumb terminal for use as some extra
> display space for textual information. I'm aware that I can use the
> terminal's keyboard to control the terminal. What I would really like to
> be able to do, however, is hide it's keyboard and control it from my main
> keyboard.
> 
> Is it possible to share keyboard control of the terminal tty with another
> keyboard? Maybe somehow with virtual terminals?
> 
> The point of this whole endevour is I want the display space but don't
> really want another keyboard cluttering the area.
> 
> Brad
> 
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> Brad Dixon                                                                  
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