Synergy: Open-Source Keyboard/Mouse Sharing
Synergy rocks! It lets you seamlessly use your keyboard and mouse with several computers. Yup you can drag your mouse from your PC to your Mac - amazing! Or if you have three old computers, hello triple monitor setup!
I connected my desktop and laptop together as follows:
* Downloaded Synergy to both computers
* Ran Synergy in client-mode on the laptop
* Ran Synergy in server-mode on the desktop. Note that I had to add the host names of both computers ("euler" and "gateway" in my case) as "screens", then I added two rules: "0 to 100% of the right of gateway goes to 0 to 100% of euler" and "0 to 100% of the left of euler goes to 0 to 100% of gateway"
That last step took some figuring out, but I've done it so you don't have to!
I connected my desktop and laptop together as follows:
* Downloaded Synergy to both computers
* Ran Synergy in client-mode on the laptop
* Ran Synergy in server-mode on the desktop. Note that I had to add the host names of both computers ("euler" and "gateway" in my case) as "screens", then I added two rules: "0 to 100% of the right of gateway goes to 0 to 100% of euler" and "0 to 100% of the left of euler goes to 0 to 100% of gateway"
That last step took some figuring out, but I've done it so you don't have to!
posted by Jonathan at
4/10/2006 10:31:00 a.m.
14 Comments:
Es increible lo que haces, guaaaauhh! espero que pronto tenga en mis manos algúno de los programas que tan bien dices diseñar.
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Mitzi Hernández, at 4/11/2006 8:07 p.m.
Hi mit - glad you like my freeware recommendations!!
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Jonathan, at 4/11/2006 11:26 p.m.
Hi Bert - Awesome you got it figured out! Yay!
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Jonathan, at 4/11/2006 11:27 p.m.
If you share a keyboard and mouse between computers can't you get a S.T.D. or something?
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Anonymous, at 4/12/2006 5:58 a.m.
That's the perfect solution to all of my husband's multiple computer woes. And it's my favorite: freeware.
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Sarah Letnes, at 4/12/2006 3:30 p.m.
Computer Nerds Unite - Hmmm!
¡fuerza - gracias! ¡Estoy alegre que usted tiene gusto de él!
Sarah - awesome! Hope he enjoys it!
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Jonathan, at 4/12/2006 10:49 p.m.
Hannah - Good to see technology is alive and well in Williams Lake!
Sean - Yeah, synergy is awesome. Need to buy a couple of old computers so I can have more displays!
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Jonathan, at 4/16/2006 1:01 p.m.
¡Sorprendente!
No lo había visto de esa manera.
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Etznab 6, at 4/17/2006 8:25 a.m.
etznab 6 - glad you find it intriguing!
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Jonathan, at 4/17/2006 9:05 a.m.
Thats fantastic!
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wendell penedo, at 4/19/2006 3:27 p.m.
Hi Wendell - yup, amazing it's free!
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Jonathan, at 4/19/2006 7:26 p.m.
Thanks for the post on Synergy. I have been intereted in finding something like this for a while for efficiencies and this thing works great. We used it in the office to prank a team mate. We loaded the client when he was a away and then kept taking control without him understanding why. "Hey, what the hell?!?!?"
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Jon & Julie, at 4/20/2006 6:17 a.m.
haha - awesome!
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Jonathan, at 4/20/2006 7:35 p.m.
Good tips... I did a full review of Synergy over on my blog:
http://www.fritzthetechdog.com/blog/?p=45
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Anonymous, at 6/22/2008 7:05 p.m.
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