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#251488 - 11/03/2005 19:36 osx2x (excess keyboard remover)
oliver
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Registered: 02/04/2002
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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.
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#251489 - 11/03/2005 19:44 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: oliver]
peter
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4172
Loc: Cambridge, England
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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.

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#251490 - 11/03/2005 20:37 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: oliver]
Attack
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Registered: 01/03/2002
Posts: 598
Loc: Florida
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.

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#251491 - 11/03/2005 20:49 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: Attack]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31565
Loc: Seattle, WA
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.
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#251492 - 11/03/2005 21:10 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: Attack]
ricin
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Registered: 19/06/2000
Posts: 1495
Loc: US: CA
I use Synergy with a Mac, a Linux desktop, and a Windows machine. Great piece of software.
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#251493 - 11/03/2005 22:01 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: Attack]
oliver
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Registered: 02/04/2002
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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?
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#251494 - 11/03/2005 22:07 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: oliver]
oliver
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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.
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#251495 - 11/03/2005 22:08 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: tfabris]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
Posts: 869
Loc: Colorado
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.
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#251496 - 12/03/2005 14:04 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: oliver]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
osx2x will share a clipboard by you "copying" and "pasting" when osx2x is the foreground app. Sort of weird.

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#251497 - 25/03/2005 00:22 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: Attack]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
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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.
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#251498 - 26/03/2005 00:49 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: gbeer]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
edit time expired:

Would you believe, They might be more worried about NOT being able to decript than being secure.
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#251499 - 26/03/2005 07:30 Re: osx2x (excess keyboard remover) [Re: gbeer]
bonzi
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Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
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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.
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