binary01hex.com— Synergy is a really cool application that allows for you to have 1 keyboard and 1 mouse across multiple monitors and computers. This a great write up and tutorial for this awesome app.
Jun 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
Great program...When I was in college I saw someone hijack 2 rows of computers (10 total) and was using synergy across all of them... he just rotated the monitors and moved them so he could sorta see them from his seat. I was impressed.
I saw this on Call For Help about a year ago, it's was a bit confusing though since I had just bought a KVM and thought I wasted my money but Synergy is not what I needed anyway. A KVM (keyboard, video & mouse) switch is if you want to share one keyboard, one monitor and mouse with multiple computer systems. Synergy shares the keyboard, mouse and multiple monitors with multiple computer systems. I guess you could call it KVM+.
I had so many problems with this. Great app though. I changed over to Multiplicity and never had any problems with it. Only downside is that it's not free, but meh, it's not expensive either. ^^
@jking2100:If you are comparing Synergy's functionality to a KVM switch, it is more of a KM switch (keyboard and mouse - not video). So you still need a monitor, which would be more than $50 anyway.However I still think that Synergy is a much better solution!However, again - this particulary story is blogspam. As others have said, go straight to <a class="user" href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net">http://synergy2.sourceforge.net</a> .
socialpoisonJun 3, 2007
Great program...When I was in college I saw someone hijack 2 rows of computers (10 total) and was using synergy across all of them... he just rotated the monitors and moved them so he could sorta see them from his seat. I was impressed.
dhughesJun 4, 2007
I saw this on Call For Help about a year ago, it's was a bit confusing though since I had just bought a KVM and thought I wasted my money but Synergy is not what I needed anyway. A KVM (keyboard, video & mouse) switch is if you want to share one keyboard, one monitor and mouse with multiple computer systems. Synergy shares the keyboard, mouse and multiple monitors with multiple computer systems. I guess you could call it KVM+.
dirtyworkerJun 4, 2007
I had so many problems with this. Great app though. I changed over to Multiplicity and never had any problems with it. Only downside is that it's not free, but meh, it's not expensive either. ^^
bigfatdummyJun 4, 2007
Nice that synergy is getting some attention but I been using this for years. Nothing new here
chuqauJun 7, 2007
@jking2100:If you are comparing Synergy's functionality to a KVM switch, it is more of a KM switch (keyboard and mouse - not video). So you still need a monitor, which would be more than $50 anyway.However I still think that Synergy is a much better solution!However, again - this particulary story is blogspam. As others have said, go straight to <a class="user" href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net">http://synergy2.sourceforge.net</a> .
stiankarlsenJun 26, 2007
Or maybe its just something wrong with your network? Default values works fine for me.
techgeek276Aug 24, 2008
Synergy is pretty awesome! I was using it for a while, but I broke down and bought a quad monitor SUPER PC from <a class="user" href="http://multi-monitors.com/">http://multi-monitors.com/</a>It's easier to have all of my hardware in one PC as well as the bandwidth of the Dual PCI Express 16 configuration to control all of my monitors. Check out this video: <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_avGStqZOI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_avGStqZOI</a>
nboltonAug 15, 2009
Try synergy-plus - it's in active maintainance