synergy magic
If you ever have more than one computer screen lined up next to one another, then you need to get hold of Synergy. You install it on each computer (Mac, Linux or Windows) and then after a little bit of configuration you can move the mouse from screen to screen, computer to computer completely naturally like they were multiple screens on one computer. AND cut and paste is supported across all of the computers.
The big thing synergy does it remove the need for a keyboard and mouse for each computer. And all those extra keyboards and mice take up desk space and then, if you are silly like me, you always end up typing on the wrong one.
Before I found synergy, I used a KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch to move between my Mac and my windows box. That works well, except for three things:
- I often needed to see both screens anyway (which the KVM allowed), but then I could never tell or never remember which screen they keyboards and mouse were working on :-)
- There was a 3 second delay when nothing worked just after switching which seemed like forever. That 3 second delay was enough to make me forget why I was going to that screen anyway.
- I really needed cut and paste to work.
Synergy does it all. Free & Open Source. Go mad. Love it.
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