From af1579850722461623ca3f74fd5a14fd20fb41c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:29:41 +0200 Subject: a comment on network-shared meta-displays MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- doc/info/mds.texinfo | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/info/mds.texinfo b/doc/info/mds.texinfo index 42616e4..38c94cc 100644 --- a/doc/info/mds.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/mds.texinfo @@ -1750,6 +1750,17 @@ rather than joining an existing meta-display, it will spawn @file{~/.mdsmetainitrc} to let you start the shared servers. +An interesting property of @command{mds-meta} is +that it can be used to share servers across display +servers on multiple computers. For example, if you +start @command{mds-host} and @command{mds-clipboard} +inside the meta-display on your central computer, +displays started on other servers can run +@command{mds-remote} to connect to the meta-display +so that all computers share the same clipboard. +However, this network will be centralised and not +distributed, so it is not perfect. + @node mds-seat -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2