Synergy2: Laptop + Desktop Heaven
Egads, I found a way to hook up a mouse and keyboard to my laptop without wires for FREE! If that weren’t enough, I can seamlessly move my mouse between my desktop and my laptop screens as if they were using a switcher, but I don’t even have to press a button to trigger the switch! Huge thanks to Matt Mullenweg for the link to Synergy2, a networked mouse & keyboard sharing program.
I have sucessfully configured the same keyboard and mouse to be used between my Windows desktop box, and my Powerbook. Setup took about 10 minutes, longer than I had hoped, only because the OS X version is a bit immature and requires some editing of a text file. The GUI in windows makes things plenty easy, and I can’t wait to see something similar for OS X soon.
If you’re reading this, you meet the requirements to run Synergy2 unless you’re a Unix user without X11, and in that case, I’m sure you could give a rat’s ass. Here’s a little demo for all interested parties…
(synergy2demo.mov, 3.3MB, 10seconds)
JD Said,
September 24, 2004 @ 11:40 am
WHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
dan Said,
September 25, 2004 @ 3:01 am
I got it going between my PC and Mac as well … its bad the fuck ass.
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October 1, 2004 @ 6:28 pm
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QuickSynergy Said,
November 15, 2005 @ 10:28 am
Try this GUI for OSX -> http://quicksynergy.sourceforge.net/
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