[Novalug] Keyboard/Mouse Switching

[Jay Hart]

Someone please demo this at a MOVALUG meeting...

Jay

>
> Matt Good wrote:
>> Try Synergy, it's open source software that should do what you need.
>> You run a server app on the system with the mouse and keyboard
>> connected, and a client on the other.  When you move the mouse of the
>> edge of the screen Synergy transfers control to the other computer, and
>> sends mouse/kb movements over the network.  Over a local network the
>> latency is low, so it's pretty much unnoticeable.
>
> THAT is WAY cool!!  I wish I had known about this earlier - I've been
> hunting high and low for KVMs for work, while this would have been a
> cheaper and better solution.
> Thanks for the link!
>
> Regards
>    Peter Larsen
>
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