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EgyptBoy20

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Hey everyone,
Is there a way to have two mice pointers on the desktop at the same time? I have two mice, just need another pointer LOL :D
 
Haha, I've never heard of it, but I suppose it could probably be done somehow.

Just curious: why?
 
Well, I just got a dual monitor setup and I was thinking...instead of my brother and I fighting over who gets to use the computer...why not have two mice? He could use it to play games and I could use it for the net. :p
 
Hah, that makes sense. I did some minor googling and have found that you can do it in linux, but apparently windows won't let more than one cursor on the screen. Many TabletPC owners have wanted to be able to use a stylus and a mouse, but windows (apparently) won't allow it.

I could be wrong, though.
 
EgyptBoy20 said:
Hey everyone,
Is there a way to have two mice pointers on the desktop at the same time? I have two mice, just need another pointer LOL :D
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Ghetto surfing: Learn your hotkeys, use tab/enter for buttons. arrow keys for scrolling, and make sure your brother isnt using the same keys for gaming. Problem solved :p
 
paintb4707 said:
Ghetto surfing: Learn your hotkeys, use tab/enter for buttons. arrow keys for scrolling, and make sure your brother isnt using the same keys for gaming. Problem solved :p
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Thanks lol I will try that out.
 
EgyptBoy20 said:
Thanks lol I will try that out.
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I was just joking. But realistically, I dont know how dual moniters work. I assume its just like 1 moniter on a huge resolution, meaning key clicks only work on active windows. You can only have 1 active window at a time. Thats either your brothers game or your firefox.
 
I vote option B: boot your brother in the head and tell him to get his own computer... or, if you're younger, vice versa :)

In my family, it has always been survival of the fittest. Which is why I've always owned at least 2-3 computers :)
 
You can always build a pc strictly for websurfing for a few hundred bucks. Then take the 2nd moniter from the other.
 
paintb4707 said:
You can always build a pc strictly for websurfing for a few hundred bucks. Then take the 2nd moniter from the other.
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Yo mike check, mike check. Naw, he over here. Yeah I heard he got that hot new thing, its called...

kvm SWITCH...

sorry, just listening to some will smith :)
 
insanarchist said:
Hah, that makes sense. I did some minor googling and have found that you can do it in linux, but apparently windows won't let more than one cursor on the screen. Many TabletPC owners have wanted to be able to use a stylus and a mouse, but windows (apparently) won't allow it.

I could be wrong, though.
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Yeah it's pretty trivial to just start up two x servers in linux and have one keyboard/mouse associated with one screen and the other keyboard/mouse associated with the other screen. Though that's kinda built into the core of X, and I really doubt windows has this kind of functionality built in.
 
rayman2k2 said:
Yo mike check, mike check. Naw, he over here. Yeah I heard he got that hot new thing, its called...

kvm SWITCH...

sorry, just listening to some will smith :)
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Huh? :confused:
 
paintb4707 said:
Huh? :confused:
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its his opening line to his song "Switch"


all I did was add kvm before Switch cause that is what I would recommend on the second monitor, that way it can be used as a second monitor for one computer and a primary for another should the OP decide to build a cheap internet macine.
 
rayman2k2 said:
its his opening line to his song "Switch"


all I did was add kvm before Switch cause that is what I would recommend on the second monitor, that way it can be used as a second monitor for one computer and a primary for another should the OP decide to build a cheap internet macine.
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Stupid me. Never heard of a kvm switch moniter. :p
 
What good is a KVM switch when the point of this topic is for them to both use the computer at once?

Get another one, guy.
 
dandragonrage said:
What good is a KVM switch when the point of this topic is for them to both use the computer at once?

Get another one, guy.
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If you read closely, one of the posters recommended building another computer and using one of the monitors on it, I recommended a KVM switch so that he could have dual monitors on one, and still be able to use one of the monitors on the other.
 
I can't remember where it was I read it, but it was definitely more than half a year ago. I was a pic of a SFF at a trade show that had two instances of an OS running from a single box. I'm not sure precisely how it was done, but I do recall it required adjusting a lot of the basic source code and the BIOS so that the two instances wouldn't be trying to make simultaneous processor requests. Seems like something far more doable in linux than Windows. Simplest solution would be to find a cheap, used, POS comp, reformat it, and have a webbox.
 
Woofer00 said:
I can't remember where it was I read it, but it was definitely more than half a year ago. I was a pic of a SFF at a trade show that had two instances of an OS running from a single box. I'm not sure precisely how it was done, but I do recall it required adjusting a lot of the basic source code and the BIOS so that the two instances wouldn't be trying to make simultaneous processor requests. Seems like something far more doable in linux than Windows. Simplest solution would be to find a cheap, used, POS comp, reformat it, and have a webbox.
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it was probably a jetway
link: http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/mtinfo.html
 
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