(:title "Technotalk")

yourhead:

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— I. Developer

This is just a little tip. I’ve been using synergy for quite some time at home where I have a desktop running Linux and notebook running Windows Vista.

It’s really easy to use. My setup is to use the keyboard/mouse on the desktop to on my notebook.

Install synergy on both computers; on the server (the computer where we want to use our keyboard/mouse in my case it’s the desktop) and on the client (the computer which will be get to share the keyboard/mouse and in my case it’s the notebook)

Let’s just refer to the desktop host name as mydesktop and the notebook host name as mynotebook

In mydesktop create a configuration file in /etc/synergy.conf 

section:screens
           mydesktop:
           mynotebook:

end

section:links
           mydesktop:
           right = mynotebook

           mynotebook:
           left = mydesktop
end

From the configuration file above, I want mynotebook to be on the left of mydesktop meaning when my mouse cursor hits the right edge of the screen in mydesktop, the cursor will continue into mynotebook. So far copy/paste works for texts.

In mynotebook all I have to do is just choose to use another computer’s shared keyboard and mouse and enter that other computer’s host name (in this case mydesktop).

This tool is a must if you have multiple computers to control and don’t want to have a messy desk. It works on Linux, Windows and Mac too.

p/s: Would love to be able to copy paste like in the Avatar movie tablets ;)