[Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread John Malloy
What is the easiest way to share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops (Linux & Windows)? Has anyone used this synergy-project: http://synergy-project.org/download/ Thanks! John Malloy jomal...@gmail.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:04:48AM -0400, John Malloy wrote: > What is the easiest way to share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops > (Linux & Windows)? > > Has anyone used this synergy-project: > > http://synergy-project.org/download/ Yup. It's worked reasonably well for years. Note that copy

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:04 AM, John Malloy wrote: > What is the easiest way to share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops > (Linux & Windows)? > > Has anyone used this synergy-project: > > http://synergy-project.org/download/ Never used. If all you want to do is share IO hardware, why not jus

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/7/2014 10:04 AM, John Malloy wrote: > What is the easiest way to share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops > (Linux & Windows)? KVM switch. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Malloy > > Has anyone used this synergy-project: > > http://synergy-project.org/download/ I don't personally use it, but a bunch of people at work do. They like it.

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On 07/07/2014 10:28 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:04:48AM -0400, John Malloy wrote: >> What is the easiest way to share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops >> (Linux & Windows)? >> >> Has anyone used this synergy-project: >> >> http://synergy-project.org/download/ > > Yup. It

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread Jason Normand
I have used synergy a number of times over the years, and it works fairly well. I have run into issues in the past with mixing operating systems, mac and windows I recall in particular. but those issues were related to hot keys and customizing keys, more than standard functionality. no matter wh

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread John Abreau
I've been using synergy for years. It's basically like VNC without the display sharing; each machine keeps its own display, and the keyboard and mouse is shared. It acts like a dual-screen system: when the mouse hits the right-hand side of the screen to the left, it appears on the screen to the rig

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread John Hall
If you are using *one monitor* use VNC, or better, RDP or XDMCP and run one computer as more or less headless or semi-headless with a back up keyboard and mouse and plugged into another interface port of your monitor. (obviously using ssh / encryption) second display + synergy is much better. Sy

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:59:34AM -0400, John Hall wrote: > Audio ( for whatever setup you choose) > It can be very useful to string the output sound of one machine into the > input of the other one. It would be an interesting project to get pulse to > work across systems set up like this. As far

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 01:00:54PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:59:34AM -0400, John Hall wrote: > > Audio ( for whatever setup you choose) > > It can be very useful to string the output sound of one machine into the > > input of the other one. It would be an interesting pr