undertakingyou

About a month ago I took a tour of xmission’s facilities and while I was there one of the tech’s was using Synergy. I was immediately intrigued, and knew that this would be something that I would have to try out. By way of short explanation, synergy creates a virtual kvm, allowing multiple machines to be controlled by one keyboard and mouse while they continue to use their own monitor. Synergy is also cross platform, working on mac os, windows, and unix-like systems. How great could that be? I have to manage several machines at work, and I often have my laptop and desktop machine set up each doing something else. But it is such a pain to have to go back and forth.

With Synergy it is so easy to have working. It was really easy to install. A small .exe file for windows and it was in the repos for ubuntu, fedora 8, and openSuSE 10.3. Server setup was really easy in windows, using their gui app. In linux a quick read of the man pages, and then making a small config file and we had the server up. Then to connect just point the client to the server ip address. Voila! Success! Then you just use the mouse and keyboard from your server machine to control the clients also. I think this could fit into the app-o-the-week.

More info see man synergy, and the project page on sourceforge.