[Madlug] Synergy - IP based keyboard/mouse switch

[Marcin Antkiewicz]

Greetings,

for a while now I was looking for a software solution to the problem
of controlling multiple displays with single keyboard and mouse.
Synergy allows me to define "neighbors" for screen edges, and takes
care of tunneling input to the right system.

Set it up:

1) get rpm form http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
In addition to rpm (srpm), the project provides OSX tarball archive
and a windows .exe

2) write /etc/synergy.conf on the system that will serve as the master

cat <<EOF > /etc/synergy.conf
section: screens
        one.test.net:
        two.test.net:
end
section: links
        one.test.net:
                right = two.test.net
        two.test.net:
                left = one.test.net
end
EOF

3) make sure that one and two are in dns

4) test in foreground, with debug messages. Later you can take the -f
flags out, and the software will run as a daemon.
- on one run "synergys -f --config /etc/synergy.conf"
- on two run  "synergyc -f --name two.test.net one.test.net"

Have fun,

--
Marcin Antkiewicz