[81267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: NOC Display's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Beggy)
Thu Jun 2 10:09:17 2005
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:08:52 -0400 (EDT)
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Chris Beggy <chrisb@kippona.com>
In-Reply-To: <OF40A51D6D.29A813C9-ON80257014.004ADCA5-80257014.004B6E97@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 2 Jun 2005, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>
> > Anyway, in our NOC we current have two LCD projectors displaying
> > outputs from two different computers. On one of the display's, I
> > would like to be able to take 4 VGA outputs from 4 workstations, and
> > display it on the screen (aka: Hollywood square style).
>
> This kind of problem is normally solved using software.
> If the applications driving the 4 VGA displays are all
> using X-Windows, then try an X Window manager that supports
> capturing a window and displaying it in miniature form
> in a dashboard or button bar. It should be possible to
> adapt this easily to display the 4 applications in
> a 2 x 2 matrix.
An X window manager like ratpoison or ion can easily do 2x2
tiling of windows, mixing continuously displayed host and remote
node sessions.
Chris
