[NTLUG:Discuss] how I solved the win/lin problem....

[David Stanaway]

To make you desk more tidy, consider installing vncserver on your
windows system, and then use x2vnc on the linux system.

This way you can hide your keyboard/mouse for the windows box under the
table.

If you windows monitor was on the left, you might have something like: 
x2vnc -west
...

This is really neat.   For a while I had 3 monitors.  My Xinerama
desktop, and the monotor from the windows box across the desk swung
around.   If you work in an office and there is a spare or rarely used
windows box close enough to move the monitor beside yours this is a very
handy trick.   I made a start/stop script and some icons to put in a
small alligned panel on that edge so that I could connect to the windows
box when a co-worker wasn't there (He was oly casual).  When he was
there, he logged into my workstation with XWin32 XDMCP client full
screen.

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 13:13, Fred wrote:
> I have 2 machines: one has Win95 (it could just as easily had any other Win)
> and the other has Linux.
> 
> The Win box has a modem, dvd player and a cd burner, as well as the photo
> quality win printer and the par port scanner that Linux won't see.
> 
> The Linux box has a printer, modem, gobs of hard drive space, the firewall, all
> the server software, email, etc. It is the workhorse of the system. 
> 
> Screw dual booting. There is enough room on the desktop for two monitors and
> two towers under the desk, so let them do their thing. I run Win programs when
> they are more practical and Linux for everything else. If I need to edit an MS
> Word file before sending it as an attachment to a kmail message, I grab the Win
> box and edit it with MS Word. No translation hassles, no waiting for Star
> Office or Open Office or any other compromise software that may or may not
> screw up the font, layput, format, etc of the document. I use the real thing.
> Then I use the Linux box to grab it and mail it.  Ditto for other apps.
> 
> The point is that I fought these problems that I read about on this list until
> I realized that no one system is the "perfect" solution, that there is a
> definite need to be able to use the best of both worlds in my day-to-day
> operations. That is when I placed both systems side-by-side with Tbase100 cards
> and Samba. It is just an awesome tool. My kid just can't understand how I can
> keep both systems running 24x7 with no crashes - even the Win box - when hers
> won't run a day without laying over on its side in the ditch.
> 
> My recommendation is to do the same thing if you can. The only single box
> system that comes close is Vmware 3.x which is excellent, but it would not let
> me use my existing printer or my existing scanner and, since I already had the
> systems, I couldn't see having to lay out all that extra money when I had
> everything I needed.
> 
> Fred
> 
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