Re: Multiple keyboards with only one routed to windows...

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From: Volker Jung (volker.jung.lenggries_at_gmx.de)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: 1 Feb 2004 11:41:21 -0800

Hello, Mike!

"The question to be asked is: why do you want to do this?"

The answer is simple but complex: I donīt like Linux. I donīt like
Windows. I donīt like that Linux-contra-Windows-debate. I appreciate
only one solution: ONE System rebuild from scratch using completely
different techniques to achieve its tasks.

Neither Windows XXX nor Linux YYY meet that goal. I have - doing my
daily work - to decide between them respectively to use them both.

But - although beeing very deep inside the theory of OSs - I like
Windows much more. It is better documented than Linux although sources
are closed. I like its optics. Itīs the only near professional system
around and the one thing that comes most closely to a standard.

Of course I donīt like Microsoftīs politics. Of course I would say the
world has a right to know Windowsī sources.

But: I use it much more often than Linux. I get nearly every problem
solved without having to join thousands of expensive courses about
Windows-administration. Even my grandma could use it. Thereīs the
difference. By the way: Nearly every hardware is installed within
minutes every program within seconds - you donīt have to care about
environment variables and other bull***. You doubleclick the file and
itīs done.

Because of this Linux is a slave for me running under Windows - not
the other way round. Besides Windowsī speed will perhaps never be
reached by Linux.

I wish to be free to start two, three, or five Windows systems on one
machine at the same time doing tasks that canīt be done another way
using only one machine. Iīm not rich - a can afford only one machine
but often have the need for more machines.

I find it stupid to buy three computers for three people costing three
times the price for one when beeing able to solve such problems with
software.

But: Not with a system grabbing all keyboards. Itīs a problem of
Windows but it can be solved. I tried "BeTwin" which should solve that
problem. This program was able to distinguish the several input
devices but in itīs main goal it sucked. It crashed Windows after one
reboot.

How is it done? This is the question again.

Some people outside who did the same? Could be done for programming
two hundred shortcuts beeing accessible with one key... There are a
few ideas where this would be helpful...

Thanks for your help
Volker Jung

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