monitor/keybord/mouse sharing

[SiliconSlick]

I think in your case you wanted Num Lock and not Scroll Lock.

But I'm not sure that would work.

As a test you can create a script like this:

#!/bin/sh
xset led named "Num Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Num Lock"

give it 700 permissions and run it. If it works, it should turn the Num Lock turn on and then off.

Testing it here, it works when I use Scroll Lock (the LED blinks), but it doesn't work with Num Lock (the LED stays on). YMMV.

If you can figure out how to make the script work then you can worry about the keyboard shortcut.

SS

[bart11]

I think you are on to some thing slick.

#!/bin/sh
xset led named "Num Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Num Lock"



that does nothing for me but if i execute the script bellow twice it will switch screens


#!/bin/sh

xset led named "Scroll Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Scroll Lock"

like i said you have to do it twice or it will not work

I wonder how you do something like this?


#!/bin/sh

xset led named "Scroll Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Scroll Lock"
pause for 1 sec
xset led named "Scroll Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Scroll Lock"

I also wonder if it is this crapy keyboard but somehow i dont think so


thanks so much for your help

---------- Post added at 11:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:33 AM ----------

ok now at least I have a luncher that will switch my display

#!/bin/sh
xset led named "Scroll Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Scroll Lock"
sleep 1
xset led named "Scroll Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Scroll Lock"

I wonder what the difference is between ubuntu and fedora on the way the keyboard is controlled.

thanks again for your help

[SiliconSlick]

Glad you figured it out.

If the keyboard shortcut thingie only takes one line then you can just replace the newlines in what you have with semicolons. e.g.

xset led named "Scroll Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Scroll Lock";sleep 1;xset led named "Scroll Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Scroll Lock"

As for Ubuntu, it may be due to the fact that they default to Unity now instead of Gnome for a desktop.

SS

[bart11]

I didn't figure it out
with out your help I would be still scratching my head.

im not going to beat my self up but I wonder why the

#!/bin/sh
xset led named "Num Lock";sleep 1;xset -led named "Num Lock"

did not light up the light?

anyway........

I like having a clickable icon to change screens

thanks so much for taking the time

have a good one

[odedrim]

SiliconSlick - you have no idea how much this has helped me.

I started thinking the KVM I just bought, and functions wonderfully, would turn out to be useless because the "hot key" shortcut for switching between computers - Scroll Lock twice - didn't work on the Linux machine.
But thanks to you (and a bit of googling) I now have Ctrl+ScrLk in Linux and ScrLk+ScrLk on Windows
(turns out that even after 8yrs of using Linux you can learn new options and commands)

Thank you!