Injecting/forwarding mouse and keyboard events into an Xserver, on a remote machine over the LAN

[Ilyes Gouta]

I guess Synergy (http://synergy-foss.org/) is what I'm looking for :)

-Ilyes

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to forward the mouse and keyboard events of a machine
> to a second one, running X?
>
> I'm not looking for something like VNC or X over SSH, where the user
> gets the remote machine's entire screen/input reproduced on his
> machine, but rather trapping and sending input events from one machine
> to another one, where the later will receive them and forward these to
> its applications.
>
> Is there any input driver for X that would listen for input events
> coming/received from the network and propagate them to the desktop
> application running on X? If not, is it there any thing close to this?
>
> -Ilyes
>