App of the Whatever: Synergy
Friday, August 11. 2006
One of the applications I can't live without is Synergy.
At home and in the office I have a standard computer and a notebook and I am working on both almost all the time at the same time. However I don't want to turn my head all the time. So the laptop is located as close as possible to the monitor of the desktop system - no place left for two keyboards and two mice, while the Laptop keyboard and touchpad are not very convenient.
And I don't want to change the keyboard and mouse, just when I do a little tiny task on the other machine. So I need a way to share these devices.
Then I have a big stack trace on my development system and would like to send it via email to a colleague from my laptop. I need to share the clipboard. But that's not all... My laptop is dual boot: Windows and Linux. So I need to have this working under both: The piece of software from Redmond and the Operating System. Previously I used x2x and x2vnc for that. Did not work flawlessly. Especially the clipboard sharing worked sometimes and sometimes not. And then it only worked, when I shared the keyboard and mouse from a Linux system and not vice versa. Long story, short end: I found Synergy and it solved all my problems. The configuration could be easier, but then you only have to do this once. And the best thing: I even don't have to restart Synergy, when I disconnect my Laptop for a Meeting. When I am back and connect it to the network, it automatically connects to the Synergy server on my development system within seconds and I can go on, as if it was never disconnected.
At home and in the office I have a standard computer and a notebook and I am working on both almost all the time at the same time. However I don't want to turn my head all the time. So the laptop is located as close as possible to the monitor of the desktop system - no place left for two keyboards and two mice, while the Laptop keyboard and touchpad are not very convenient.
And I don't want to change the keyboard and mouse, just when I do a little tiny task on the other machine. So I need a way to share these devices.
Then I have a big stack trace on my development system and would like to send it via email to a colleague from my laptop. I need to share the clipboard. But that's not all... My laptop is dual boot: Windows and Linux. So I need to have this working under both: The piece of software from Redmond and the Operating System. Previously I used x2x and x2vnc for that. Did not work flawlessly. Especially the clipboard sharing worked sometimes and sometimes not. And then it only worked, when I shared the keyboard and mouse from a Linux system and not vice versa. Long story, short end: I found Synergy and it solved all my problems. The configuration could be easier, but then you only have to do this once. And the best thing: I even don't have to restart Synergy, when I disconnect my Laptop for a Meeting. When I am back and connect it to the network, it automatically connects to the Synergy server on my development system within seconds and I can go on, as if it was never disconnected.
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