Maybe Bluetooth could be useful afterall…
I have been using Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse between my Linux desktop and Windows laptop for quite a while. Occasionally, I bring my Linux laptop over and I want to use the shared keyboard with my Linux laptop as well.
I wrote a little ruby script (cuz I can’t really write shell scripts) and bound it to a panel launcher, to use for toggling whether to turn on synergy or not. If I have more time and energy, I guess I can install the Ruby-GNOME bindings and make a little panel applet or tray icon.
But then this idea just hit me.
If I have bluetooth on all my machines, then I can use bluetooth to find out the proximity of my laptop from other devices. If everything is all setup to go, then I should be able to write an event handler to automatically turn on keyboard sharing whenever the machine is n units
away from my desktop and automatically turn it off when I bring my laptop elsewhere.
Wouldn’t that be grand?
Finn:
You just remembered that a TV-show you’ve been looking forward for a week, has been running for 4 minutes already. You rocket from the PC and dive into the sofa. After succesfully zapping to the correct channel, all is well. Until you discover you forgot to turn of winamp. You put up with the low, anoying, semi-recognizable noice for 10-15 minutes. Anoyed you sacrifice 30 seconds of precious time, to stop winamp.
Maybe I should be shamed to tell you how bluetooth has benefitted me. I start bemusedlinuxserver on startup (gnome session). bemused fires up a winamp. I don’t always listen to music, but a collapsed winamp doesn’t take much space anyway. In the TV-case i mentioned above, I simply stop winamp from my cellphone. Make no mistake, bemused is a lifesaver
However, I’ve not solved the problem when I forget my cell on my desk yet.
28 March 2005, 10:54 amduncanmak: Maybe Bluetooth could be useful afterall...:
[...] duncan mak (duncanmak) wrote,@ 2005-03-28 04:21:00 Maybe Bluetooth could be useful afterall… I have been using Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse between my Linux desktop and Windows laptop for quite a while. Occasionally, I bring my Linux laptop over and I want to use the shared keyboard with my Linux laptop as well.I wrote a little ruby script (cuz I can’t really write shell scripts) and bound it to a panel launcher, to use for toggling whether to turn on synergy or not. If I have more time and energy, I guess I can install the Ruby-GNOME bindings and make a little panel applet or tray icon.But then this idea just hit me.If I have bluetooth on all my machines, then I can use bluetooth to find out the proximity of my laptop from other devices. If everything is all setup to go, then I should be able to write an event handler to automatically turn on keyboard sharing whenever the machine is n units away from my desktop and automatically turn it off when I bring my laptop elsewhere.Wouldn’t that be grand?View this post on my blog(Post a new comment) Log in now.(Create account, or use OpenID) [...]
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