osx2x (excess keyboard remover)

Posted by: oliver

osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 11/03/2005 19:36

I'm not sure if anyone else has seen this software before, it looks pretty powerful however, I’d like to find something that would allow this on a PC, i would hate to have to setup a mac on my desk, just to get rid of 3 sets of keyboards/mice without having to purchase a hardware KVM.

Also, the one feature that I’d really be looking for, is the shared clipboard, just being able to move my mouse to another physical computer and copying something from a window and returning to my development machine to paste that text is the most powerful timesaving feature I can think of.
Posted by: peter

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 11/03/2005 19:44

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I’d like to find something that would allow this on a PC

If your PC runs Linux, use x2x or x2vnc. I have this set up at Rio, and it all just works, even the clipboard. If your PC runs Windows, there's a similar thing called win2vnc, but I haven't used that one. Either way you'll need to run VNC servers on all your PCs except the one with the keyboard/mouse.

Peter
Posted by: Attack

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 11/03/2005 20:37

I use Synergy at work.

I have a PC and a laptop, when I move my mouse off the right side of my monitor it shows up on my laptop and now my Primary PC keyboard and mouse is doing everything on the laptop. The clipboard is also shared. It can get confused but overall it is so worth it.
Posted by: tfabris

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 11/03/2005 20:49

Synergy looks interesting. Like a valid alternative to a KVM switch or a remote control application for some. I'll have to play with it. I like the concept of moving your mouse off the screen to control another computer.
Posted by: ricin

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 11/03/2005 21:10

I use Synergy with a Mac, a Linux desktop, and a Windows machine. Great piece of software.
Posted by: oliver

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 11/03/2005 22:01

I have to agree, synergy seems to do everything I need it to. Thanks to everyone for the awesome links, my google foo isn't working lately

The only problem I’ve found, which would be an added bonus if it worked. Try to load up hl2 on your gaming PC, and the mouse works nicely in the server browser, but after you get into the game, you just spin in endless circles. Anyone know of a way to fix that?
Posted by: oliver

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 11/03/2005 22:07

actually, if you turn on the 'relative mouse moves' option with scroll lock enabled on the gaming pc, it will work almost perfectly, but if you try to disable scroll lock and go back into your other pc the mouse won't go return to the other screen and you start going in endless circles again in hl2.
Posted by: webroach

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 11/03/2005 22:08

I've been using Teleffect to do the same thing between the SGIs and my Win-tendo for years. This looks like a pretty good second choice.

And I agree, it is cool watching the mouse just cruise from one system to the next. Not as cool as sharing clipboards, but still really cool.
Posted by: Daria

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 12/03/2005 14:04

osx2x will share a clipboard by you "copying" and "pasting" when osx2x is the foreground app. Sort of weird.
Posted by: gbeer

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 25/03/2005 00:22

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I use Synergy at work.

I have a PC and a laptop, when I move my mouse off the right side of my monitor it shows up on my laptop and now my Primary PC keyboard and mouse is doing everything on the laptop. The clipboard is also shared. It can get confused but overall it is so worth it.


This is something I didn't know I needed. I'm glad that SSH can be used to protect the packets running back and forth otherwise its usage would never pass muster with the secruity geeks.
Posted by: gbeer

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 26/03/2005 00:49

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Would you believe, They might be more worried about NOT being able to decript than being secure.
Posted by: bonzi

Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) - 26/03/2005 07:30

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Would you believe, They might be more worried about NOT being able to decript than being secure.

I would Most real-world security types I encountered were concerned with appearance of security and with their position of ultimate arbiters of what 'ordinary' users are allowed to do.