 Synergy, 1 mouse and key board on multiple computers
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Nik
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Tue Jun 06 2006, 01:47AM
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Registered Member #53
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
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On a whim I downloaded and installed "Synergy" (  their site) Just to see how it works and how well it works. I am pretty impressed and wanted to know if any one else had tried this software or simmilar software at home or at work.
The short description is: Synergy lets you use one set of keayboard and mouse to use on more then one computer on a network. In my case its a Suse10 computer and a WinXP computer side by side. When the mouse goes off one edge of the screen it pics up onto the other screen seemlessly.
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Registered Member #56
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
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that's interesting... I could definitely see it being useful [cntrl-d]
I have a different problem, my computers are too far apart and there are too few screens to go around (well there are, but some not in friendly environments) so I have freenx to link them all together. It sorta acts like one big huge kvm that can view any of my linux boxes from any of my other ones (win/lin)
As to the problem solved by synergy... I just have all of the screens connected to the same comp in my room (only 2 atm, but there might be a third if I get my second graphics card to play nice)... I can even drag windows between screens  I can run vmware on one of the screens to solve the cross os problem 
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