Thought I would start a series of posts like this to highlight some of the great apps that are maybe not too familiar with the average linux/OSS user. I will start with the synergy application.
Synergy is a command line tool that is used to share one keyboard and mouse across a multitude of machines. The sourceforge page can be found at http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ It has good documentation and FAQs and is very straight forward to follow.
Synergy is available for most operating systems and works in a client server mode where the server has the physical mouse and keyboard and runs a daemon on port 24800.
The clients connect to the server and can then share that keyboard and mouse. The configuration is very straight forward and is configured by the principal of relative positions to each other i.e.
client is left of server; server is right of client
A great app that is very underated in my opinion. Those who know it and use it regularly will be wondering how people who do not survive without it!
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