[Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 01:00:54PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:59:34AM -0400, John Hall wrote:
> > Audio ( for whatever setup you choose)
> > It can be very useful to string the output sound of one machine into the
> > input of the other one.  It would be an interesting project to get pulse to
> > work across systems set up like this. As far as I know as it is you will
> > have to use the audio controls on both computers and your screen to get the
> > sound set up but this is worth it if you might miss a message or run
> > long-running processes or monitoring for which an alert at the end would be
> > useful.
> 
> It is much, much simpler and less likely to fail to do this in
> hardware. Amazon sells 2-4 channel stereo mixers for $25-50.
> Plug them in to all your computers, set the relative volumes
> once, and never think about it again.

This one is even being used specifically for this purpose,
according to comments:

http://www.amazon.com/Rolls-MX41b-Stereo-Inputs-Potentiometers/dp/B00102XUX6/

-dsr-