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No need for a second mouse: http://synergy-project.org/ http://synergy-project.org/

bane 12y ago
Synergy is amazing. It's hard to explain to people, but as soon as they get somebody to set it up you can watch their faces the first time they move their mouse over to another machine and they go "oh"..."ooOOOHHH" and the light clicks on. They've recently moved to a paid model, but some older free versions are still around. I don't know why it's not better known.
- nbolton 12y ago
  Story of my life! That's why I commissioned the video. What do you think? Some think the music is a bit babyish... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJlUiQZ84Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJlUiQZ84Uw
  - Todd 12y ago
    I think the video looks great. It conveys the purpose very clearly for those who don't even know that they need something like that. Although it's not my cup of tea, I think the music is very current in this context. Nice work!
  - bane 12y ago
    Video is great! Still it's weird, I can even show somebody a setup with Synergy running, and until the moment they move their own mouse cursor over that hard boundary at the end of their monitor, it never seems to click...and weirdly people are kind of resistant to it. I almost think the next Tron movie needs a character named Synergy that bashes down arbitrary walls between systems to really get the idea out there ;)
rcarmo 12y ago
Also Teleport for Mac: http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/ http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/ (requires a little tweaking to work with Yosemite)
girvo 12y ago
Hehehe. I once worked in an agency, where I commandeered three iMacs, and used Synergy (it may have been a similar application mind you) to use them as "monitors". Each iMac was for a different purpose :P
- jacquesm 12y ago
  The linux version of that is called xdmx.
  - dfox 12y ago
    xdmx does slightly different thing, it allows one to build X display that uses another X displays as it's screens (everything goes through the xmdx server and last time I tried it it was incredibly slow, as in significantly slower than using normal X11 over the same network). X11-only equivalent of synergy is for example x2x (https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x).

bane 12y ago

Synergy is amazing. It's hard to explain to people, but as soon as they get somebody to set it up you can watch their faces the first time they move their mouse over to another machine and they go "oh"..."ooOOOHHH" and the light clicks on. They've recently moved to a paid model, but some older free versions are still around. I don't know why it's not better known.

nbolton 12y ago
Story of my life! That's why I commissioned the video. What do you think? Some think the music is a bit babyish... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJlUiQZ84Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJlUiQZ84Uw
- Todd 12y ago
  I think the video looks great. It conveys the purpose very clearly for those who don't even know that they need something like that. Although it's not my cup of tea, I think the music is very current in this context. Nice work!
- bane 12y ago
  Video is great! Still it's weird, I can even show somebody a setup with Synergy running, and until the moment they move their own mouse cursor over that hard boundary at the end of their monitor, it never seems to click...and weirdly people are kind of resistant to it. I almost think the next Tron movie needs a character named Synergy that bashes down arbitrary walls between systems to really get the idea out there ;)

rcarmo 12y ago

Also Teleport for Mac: http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/ http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/ (requires a little tweaking to work with Yosemite)

girvo 12y ago

Hehehe. I once worked in an agency, where I commandeered three iMacs, and used Synergy (it may have been a similar application mind you) to use them as "monitors". Each iMac was for a different purpose :P

jacquesm 12y ago
The linux version of that is called xdmx.
- dfox 12y ago
  xdmx does slightly different thing, it allows one to build X display that uses another X displays as it's screens (everything goes through the xmdx server and last time I tried it it was incredibly slow, as in significantly slower than using normal X11 over the same network). X11-only equivalent of synergy is for example x2x (https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x).