- #Control two laptops with one keyboard and mouse for mac plus#
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#Control two laptops with one keyboard and mouse for mac free#
A free implementation of SSH is called OpenSSH and runs on Linux, many Unixes, and Windows (in combination with Cygwin). One such tool is SSH (which stands for secure shell). However, there are tools that can add authentication and encryption to synergy without modifying either those tools or synergy. Therefore, synergy should not be used on untrusted networks. Any computer can connect to the synergy server if it provides a screen name known to the server, and all data is transferred between the server and the clients unencrypted which means that anyone can, say, extract the key presses used to type a password. Synergy does not do any authentication or encryption. Synergy does have some shortcomings when it comes to security but they are easily overcome. The means that if your dual monitor setup uses matching monitor resolutions you could have 50% of the screen's top edge (one monitor's worth) mapped to the edge of one client and the other 50% (the second monitor) to another client. Synergy supports mapping a certain percentage of the screen to be aligned with a percentage of another screen. Then imagine a shelf above that with a bank of 5 more monitors.Īs a side note, if you run a dual monitor setup then the "screen" is the combined real estate of both monitors. For example, imagine a shelf just above the monitors in the above picture that holds your laptop and monitors for two other computers. Client computers can be to the left, right, top, or bottom of the server's screen or any other clients screen. In the above picture you could just as easily substitute a laptop for any one of these machines.
It's a little like having a 2nd or a 3rd desktop. It's intended for users with multiple computers, where each system uses its own display. Synergy+ (synergy-plus) lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, without special hardware.
Below is an explanation of Synergy (taken from the Synergy+ home page):
#Control two laptops with one keyboard and mouse for mac plus#
Synergy has not been updated since 2006 but have no fear because it has been forked to a new project called Synergy+ ( ) and they are working to squash the bugs that have arisen plus add new functionality. Best of all, it is free, works with Linux, OS X, and Windows. Synergy ( synergy2.sf.net ) allows you to use the keyboard and mouse of your primary computer to control all the other computers around you. Do you have multiple computers on your desk? Is one of them a laptop that is sat off to the side a bit? Have you ever wished that you could get rid of all but one of the keyboard / mouse combos that clutter your desk or that your laptop was easier to control? If so then Synergy is the answer to your woes.
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