Recently I acquired a 17” iMac G4. Wanting to be able to control both it and my 15” Titanium PowerBook G4 I discovered “Synergy.” (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/)
Synergy allows one keyboard and mouse to control multiple machines through software. (Even machines running different OSes.) A simple configuration file defines the involved systems and there spatial relationship to each other. Starting a synergy client on each machine to be controlled, and the synergy server on the host machine (the one with the keyboard and mouse) is all there is to it.
Since both the iMac and PowerBook have dedicated LCD displays, with no ability to accept input from an outside source this software solution was the best (only?) solution I could find.
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