On 08/26/03 11:32 AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > Hello, > > I am deaf-blind and use my computer to communicate with others in my > organization. Normally, people can type on the computer keyboard while I > am running a text editor such as nano and what they type appears > immediately on my braille display through brltty. I can also type on my > braille Lite and it appears immediately on the screen. However, my office > is on the second floor and we have some people in wheelchairs. It would be > very nice if they could communicate in the same way from their computers > over our LAN. I could set up an account on my machine and they could > telnet to it, but how would I know what they are typing, and how would > they receive what I type? Is there a program that root can use to see a > user's screen and type onto it? I believe screen can be set up so that multiple users can use the same screen session, but this isn't exactly what you're looking for imho. You might check out write. It may require permissions to be set on ttys for various users, I don't recall, but it sends messages to standard error which means they will show up in whatever program you are using. On my debian system write is a part of the bsdmainutils package. There is also kibbitz, but I have only heard a little about it, I am sure you can google for it though if necessary. -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx gpg: 45CBBABD _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list