Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers

I must advertise for this nice and cool utility.
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.
Synergy is found here at sourceforge: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

EDIT: I've some issues with syngergy+. Most of the time it's working perfectly. But sometimes the master and slave doesn't seem to connect. I'm currently trying out Input Director as an alternative. http://www.inputdirector.com

1 comment:

  1. And there is a newer version, http://synergy-foss.org/pm/projects/synergy/tabs/download. This one will even work if the application is running as Administrator.

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