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[PLUG] Synergy shares keyboard, mouse and clipboard
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Just a heads up on this very useful FOSS software, if you dont know about it already...
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
On my desk at home I have 4 computers: 2x Linux (Gentoo and Xandros), Sun Blade (Solaris 8) and WindozeXP (corporate VPN client), each with their own monitor, keyboard and mouse. To make things worse I hope to have a Powerbook on that desk soon too. Its cumbersome to switch between the input devices as I switch between machines. And a KVM switch requires manual intervention to switch focus. Enter Synergy, the coolest tool I have seen in a long while.
It’s a network client-server program that can take the keyboard and mouse connected to one machine (the server) and use them across all of the machines on the LAN (the clients). Rolling the mouse off screen/machine 1 moves the cursor/focus to screen/machine2 and now the mouse/keyboard input is captured on machine1 but proxied to machine2. Brilliant. And it just works. AND you can share the clipboard across machines. And it can run on any X-based UNIX, mostly well on Mac OSX and very well on Windows. Now imagine this software combined with the auto-discovery of Bonjour. Highly recommended.
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
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