Okay, just happened upon this on hackaday.com,
but this software is one of the most creative and unique things I have ever seen.
Most linux users will have this installed without knowing it. Head over to the site to update.
Basically, Synergy allows you to control two or more pc's with the same keyboard/mouse, without any special hardware. You just need to run the server on one machine, and then clients on the others. There are server/client combos for Win32, Unix, and OSX. It also allows copy/paste between displays, as well as shared screen savers.
If you have multiple desktop pc's/monitors on your desk, this is a great way to use both, without switching to a different keyboard or mouse, or using an often times expensive or unreliable hardware switch. All I can say is wow. I installed the software on my XP box, configured for about 10 seconds, and started the server. I then grabbed the rpm for my Fedora box, ran
rpm -Uvh synergy-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm,
and started the client up:
synergyc 'synergy-server-host' .
It just worked right out of the 'box'.
Try it out at http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
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