Remote ssh access with Orca + Mag onUbuntu

[Visually_Improved <thomaslloyd at yahoo dot com>]

Hey All,

I have been using the x server based in cygwin for remote access into my
ubuntu servers for some time now. I am registered blind but have a little
sight left. I am working at the Royal National College for the Blind
developing assistive technologies. I would like to get quite a complicated
setup running. 

 have cygwin running on a USB stick.This can be used on any Windows PC to
login to my linux servers running ssh. I am running fullgraphical Gnome
sessions on these boxes.

I have the remote server exporting its display to the remote x server on my
windows machine. This is greate. I have managed to get this working with a
variety of windows based assistive tech but as yet I can not get the Orca
magnifier in Gnome to respond correctly from a remote session. I have
managed to get the magnified target and source setup on cygwin but the only
way to use full screen magnification on Gnome is to provide the mag app with
a source and target. If you have only one screen you can specify a
dummy\virtual screen that you can take the output from and magnify onto your
monitor. This works as the mouse and keyboard inputs go to that dummy screen
but in cygwin I can run two screens using the xwin options but I can not get
the keyboard input to register in the second window that does not have focus
on it. 

Can anyone come up with an idea of how to pass the mouse and keyboard inputs
to a xwin window that does not have focus? I have been mulling a few ideas
about to how to go about this but at the moment I am a little stuck not
fullyunderstanding what options I have open to me. 

In linux just modifying the \xfree.conf with a virtual screen and monitor
does the trick but I can not see that working on cygwin. 
Any ideas would be kindly received 

Tommy L
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