I've never been comfortable with a single keyboard/mouse controlling multiple monitors. It's never felt right to me and I don't gain any productivity.
What I do enjoy however is multiple monitors with different input devices (one keyboard per monitor). I find this gives me a good productivity boost. I can setup parts of my environment on each system and not have them interfere with each other. This of course assumes I can mount drives, or device protocols, between them to some degree.
So multiple input setups, but on one physical device? I'd never considered it, but it makes a lot of sense! It consolidates some of the hassle of having to share between different physical machines, while still allowing the flexibility of multiple workspaces + modes of input.
Well, I have yet to figure out how to get that working, so I usually have multiple differnt computers for each set of keyboard/nice. Normally I have only two I'm working on at a time.
Ideally I'd like to have a kind of switching KVM where I can arbitrarily map inputs and outputs with computers.
Ha! Yeah, it sounds like it would be tricky to set up. I have a KVM setup for multiple computers, but I like the idea of a multiple-input KVM setup for one computer. Especially in OS X or many of the Linux WMs that allow for multiple workspaces, it seems like a doable idea - just map a set of inputs to a workspace.
Sounds like your real-life setup mimics my own - multiple physical devices for semi-parallel tasks. I have a laptop where I do my main work and a touchscreen Chromebook which I basically use as a drawing tablet in tent mode.
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I've never been comfortable with a single keyboard/mouse controlling multiple monitors. It's never felt right to me and I don't gain any productivity.
What I do enjoy however is multiple monitors with different input devices (one keyboard per monitor). I find this gives me a good productivity boost. I can setup parts of my environment on each system and not have them interfere with each other. This of course assumes I can mount drives, or device protocols, between them to some degree.
So multiple input setups, but on one physical device? I'd never considered it, but it makes a lot of sense! It consolidates some of the hassle of having to share between different physical machines, while still allowing the flexibility of multiple workspaces + modes of input.
Well, I have yet to figure out how to get that working, so I usually have multiple differnt computers for each set of keyboard/nice. Normally I have only two I'm working on at a time.
Ideally I'd like to have a kind of switching KVM where I can arbitrarily map inputs and outputs with computers.
Ha! Yeah, it sounds like it would be tricky to set up. I have a KVM setup for multiple computers, but I like the idea of a multiple-input KVM setup for one computer. Especially in OS X or many of the Linux WMs that allow for multiple workspaces, it seems like a doable idea - just map a set of inputs to a workspace.
Sounds like your real-life setup mimics my own - multiple physical devices for semi-parallel tasks. I have a laptop where I do my main work and a touchscreen Chromebook which I basically use as a drawing tablet in tent mode.