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August 12, 2005
Sharing your mouse, keyboard and pasteboard with several Macs (or PC's)
Like many people, I have several computers at work that I frequently switch among:
I recently started using Synergy to share my mouse, keyboard and pasteboard among my main work G5 and my home Powerbook. It is pretty cool, and fairly easy to setup. Once I pop into work, I run a little script to start the client on my PowerBook:
#!/bin/sh
prog=(/Users/corbin/synergy/synergyc neeb.apple.com)
### Stop any currently running Synergy client
killall ${prog[0]##*/}
### Start the new client
exec “${prog[@]}”
I set this to be always opened with Console, and I manually double click on it when I want to start the synergy client.
Read the documentation for the exact way to set it up..once you have it running, it is very cool!
Posted by corbin at August 12, 2005 02:19 PM
Comments
i have it set on 2 macs, one powerbook and an older G4 tower. needless to say, when one goes to sleep, the tower - which is the client - does not respond... any hints?
Posted by: chris at August 13, 2005 10:58 AM
You have to restart the client when one of them goes to sleep.
killall synergyc && ./synergyc
does it for me.
Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2005 11:38 AM
I use Teleport for ages now -- tho it's not multiplatform. There's a version 4 on the way... I couldn't live without it :)
http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/
Posted by: gemp at August 14, 2005 05:37 AM
You would probably like Apple Remote Desktop 2.2 better. Yeah, it's expensive commercial software, but it's tailored to the MacOS X environment, and has many powerful features that go way beyond your usual VNC/Synergy/etc. remote screen control. The best thing about ARD is that the software is built into every MacOS X system, so you can use ARD to do remote maintenance on any Mac system you can reach by the internet, with zero configuration on their end.
Posted by: Charles at August 14, 2005 05:03 PM
ARD is very good for remote administration but totally useless when you have your computers side by side, which is what's discussed here :)
Posted by: gemp at August 15, 2005 04:08 AM
uhh.. gemp, you've obviously never used ARD. I am using it right now to switch between 2 Macs sitting right next to each other.
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Posted by: search engine at August 18, 2005 09:58 AM
would you mind posting that script? I tried copying and pasting your code into Script Editor and changing the location of the synergy folder, but I got errors. Thanks
Posted by: Joe at September 5, 2005 03:00 PM