Just this week, I've ordered a new toy: An Ergoriser. Or not really a toy actually, but a useful addition to my desktop. Last week I decided I wanted something like that, last monday (around midnight) I ordered it and wednesday it got delivered. Nice and quick.

Instead of fiddling around with cables to my external monitor or having to look down to my notebook while working, I can now put Xanthe (my notebook) up on my ergoriser, to get the screen on a decent and ergonomical height.

I still need to connect my keyboard and mouse to use them, though. I'd like to use bluetooth for that, but there is no bluetooth edition of my keyboard (or any other 'broken' ergonomical keyboard...) and I have not found any device that can connect USB peripherals through bluetooth.

So, I'm gonna be trying another option: Use Xdmx to put up a proxying xserver on Xanthe. Xdmx can dynamically attach and detach to other X servers, for graphical output as well as getting input. I'm not sure how exactly this will work out, though, but if everything works out, I will be able to use the CRT monitor on my desk through xdmx as well (it's connected to Katherina, my workstation).

To make it even fancyer, I should be able to attach the monitor and input devices automatically, through WLAN, as soon as I get home (using the wireless access point's MAC address to detect 'home'). Fun!