If you have multiple computers with multiple monitors, Synergy is a great way to keep your hands on a single keyboard & mouse. It’s kind of like a KVM, but it’s not.<\/p>\n
I have 2 monitors on 1 computer (my main desktop PC) and a laptop that I haul from home to work. Now, I can keep my hands on one keyboard and mouse while I slide my mouse from my big 19″ main screen, over to the right to my 17″ screen and then … magically to the right again onto my laptop!<\/p>\n
You can slide from your PC to your Linux to your Mac. Keyboard input follows the mouse. You can copy\/paste across boxen! It’s magic, and it’s FREEE!<\/p>\n
Get Synergy<\/a> I was up and running in < 5 minutes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1-27-21 update: section: links – Point Synergy at the config file with the “Use existing configuration” option. If you have multiple computers with multiple monitors, Synergy is a great way to keep your hands on a single keyboard & mouse. It’s kind of like a KVM, but it’s not. I have 2 monitors on 1 computer (my main desktop PC) and a laptop that I haul from home to work. Now, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distractions","category-geekery","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8688,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/8688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRead a good tutorial<\/a>. (I thought it was overly verbose and then I needed to read it to figure out one concept)<\/p>\n
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\nI hadn’t been using Synergy for a while but with COVID, I needed a better computer setup. I’ve got 2 Windows computers with a total of 3 monitors. It’s wonderful! I paid $30 for it and it’s, no brainer, completely worth it!
\nI have 2 monitors on the bottom and 1 on top. So I used the custom configuration option to align the cursor movements better. Here’s how:
\n– Start Synergy
\n– export the current configuration with File | Save Configuration as…
\n– modify the configuration file with tips from Synergy (1<\/a>)
\nMine looks like this:<\/p>\n
\nPSC-ALT-49:
\nup(50,100) = Tobuscus(0,100)
\nTobuscus:
\ndown(0,100) = PSC-ALT-49(50,100)
\nend<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n– Profit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"