Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community  

Go Back   Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community > Interests > Tilted Technology


 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 03-23-2004, 07:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
Insane
 
Location: Tucson, AZ
Synergy, An Open Source K/M Switch (and more!)

I just found this open source program named "Synergy" that is perfect for geeks like me with the twobox or more setup. Ive got two computers on my desk and each has its own monitor, keyboard and mouse. But while I'm running Synergy, I can move the mouse of my main system ACROSS the two screens and interact with my second computer as if it were a second monitor. It also focuses the keyboard on my main system to whatever system my mouse is on. It also runs on a client/server architecture so that the server is the machine with the main keyboard and mouse and its clients are the machines that you wish to control. It's so awesome to be able to connect with the two computers so seemlessly. You can even use it between linux and windows machines, or like me, between windows machines.

Check it out guys. I love it and I can't imagine living without it now.

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html

Quote:
From Synergy's Website

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.
__________________
"Sell Crazy Somewhere Else, We're All Stocked Up Here," Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets
Nhanced1 is offline  
Old 03-23-2004, 07:30 PM   #2 (permalink)
Crazy
 
Location: madison, wi
holy balls, that looks neat. I'll try it out tomorrow at work, and give my opinion.
digme is offline  
Old 03-23-2004, 08:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
Dopefish
 
wraithhibn's Avatar
 
Location: the 'Ville
Saw this on TechTV tonight huh? I saw it while flipping channels. Looks like a good idea for multiple desktops.
__________________
If you won't dress like the Victoria Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.
wraithhibn is offline  
Old 03-23-2004, 09:18 PM   #4 (permalink)
Über-Rookie
 
Location: No longer, D.C
that seems like an awesome program.. I just wish i hadnt gotten rid of my second monitor
__________________
"All that we can do is just survive.
.All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive." - Rush
oblar is offline  
Old 03-24-2004, 07:52 AM   #5 (permalink)
Crazy
 
Quote:
Originally posted by wraithhibn
Saw this on TechTV tonight huh? I saw it while flipping channels. Looks like a good idea for multiple desktops.
Yup saw that too, TechTV, it's an interesting watch now and again.
kwoodmex is offline  
Old 03-24-2004, 03:57 PM   #6 (permalink)
Darth Papa
 
ratbastid's Avatar
 
Location: Yonder
Oh my GOD! Just yesterday I was sitting at my two-computer desk trying to do a task that involved paging out downloads to my secondary machine. Rolling back and forth between my two machines, typing a little here, mousing a little there, the thought struck me, "Man. This is worse than doing two girls at once!"

And then I had this vision, this thought... Wouldn't it be cool if I could treat that other machine like it was a dual-head of my main machine? Like I could just roll my mouse over there and click a few things?

And then today... HERE THAT IS!!! Unbelievable.

For my next trick, I will imagine somebody bringing me a million dollars.
ratbastid is offline  
Old 03-24-2004, 07:07 PM   #7 (permalink)
Insane
 
Location: Tucson, AZ
Quote:
Originally posted by wraithhibn
Saw this on TechTV tonight huh? I saw it while flipping channels. Looks like a good idea for multiple desktops.
I actually caught a link to synergy from a review of a flatscreen monitor that was actually two 15 inch lcds put next to each other with one stand and in one frame. It was neat because they used synergy to tie two xp boxes together on this giant monitor.

Here's a link to that review:

http://www.modasylum.com/reviews.php?review=38

and I found that link at

http://www.hardocp.com
__________________
"Sell Crazy Somewhere Else, We're All Stocked Up Here," Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets
Nhanced1 is offline  
Old 03-24-2004, 09:18 PM   #8 (permalink)
Psycho
 
cheese's Avatar
 
Location: In your bath tub with all your other rubber toys
working on installing it now... gonna be fun cuz i dont knwo dick about linux and i just whiped my old puter and put redhat on it.

wish me luck
cheese is offline  
Old 03-24-2004, 09:28 PM   #9 (permalink)
Psycho
 
Homey_V's Avatar
 
Location: Canada
This looks pretty nifty. Unfortunatley I dont have the resources to try it myself. Anyone else running it across Windows and Linux?
__________________
You did what with a duck?
Homey_V is offline  
Old 03-25-2004, 05:35 AM   #10 (permalink)
Junkie
 
Location: RI
When I get my copy of Linux fully updated and such, I'll throw it on there along with my fiancee's XP comp. But on dialup, that could take awhile with 300+ megs worth of updates.
Fallon is offline  
Old 03-26-2004, 04:33 PM   #11 (permalink)
Crazy
 
Location: Dallas, TX
Wasn't there a commcercial application that did this (and a bit more)?

Anyone happen to know the name?
__________________
It won't give up, it wants me dead, god damn this voice inside my head.
fracturedmind is offline  
Old 03-26-2004, 06:49 PM   #12 (permalink)
Junkie
 
Location: RI
Well, just plopped that puppy on my two computers. Works nice, but wasn't what I thought it'd be. I was hopin it'd slide a window over or somethin, but it definately is nice/wierd all wrapped into one lil bag... =p
Fallon is offline  
Old 01-19-2006, 01:02 PM   #13 (permalink)
Death Leprechaun
 
Confederate's Avatar
 
Location: College Station, TX
I was going to start this thread. but I'm glad I did a search. I just installed it on my main comp and my laptop. I have a laptop docking station next to my main comp, and I can use one keyboard and mouse to control both, at first I was a little wary of setting it up, but it installed in a breeze. I'm Loving it!
Confederate is offline  
Old 01-19-2006, 02:16 PM   #14 (permalink)
Insane
 
Location: Vermont
Yeah I tried this out last year when both my pcs where on XP and it was amazing!
Except when gaming, then I had to turn it off until done.

I never did get it working between my linux and xp boxes, btu I never tried that hard so I don't know if it really is that difficult.
RAGEAngel9 is offline  
Old 01-19-2006, 02:39 PM   #15 (permalink)
Adequate
 
cyrnel's Avatar
 
Location: In my angry-dome.
Good bump. Synergy is incredibly useful. I wrote a Mac version way back when I had 6 machines & 10 monitors glowing at me, but honestly Synergy makes what I did look like crap.
__________________
There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
cyrnel is offline  
Old 01-20-2006, 09:09 AM   #16 (permalink)
beauty in the breakdown
 
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Yeah, I used to use this a good bit. I'd have my laptop running right next to my main computer, and its great to be able to just sidle over there with my main mouse and do something. Very, very cool app.

Rage is right though, it doesn't play nice with games. Make sure to turn it off if you load up WoW or something...
__________________
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
--Plato
sailor is offline  
Old 01-27-2006, 01:07 AM   #17 (permalink)
Upright
 
neato! gonna try this! thanks!
mmbcook is offline  
Old 01-28-2006, 01:22 PM   #18 (permalink)
alpaca lunch for the trip
 
jujueye's Avatar
 
Location: in my computer
Freaks Ahoy that looks cool. I can use it at home for sure for file movement between machines, and can definitely use it at work. We'll be building up a test lab for hmtl/Tomcat/RedHat/blahblah testing, so commading multiple machines from one place sounds awesome. Add this to some terminal services apps and it becomes even more awesome.

THANKS!!!
jujueye is offline  
 

Tags
k or m, open, source, switch, synergy

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 03:30 PM.

Tilted Forum Project

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
© 2002-2012 Tilted Forum Project

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360