Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 19, 2006 10:49 PM
I've been running synergy for several years now. Primarily with a Mandrake/Mandriva server and a Win2K/Win XP client. Cut and paste between systems can be [b]VERY convenient[/b]. Sometimes I also have my dual-boot laptop in the mix, so I'm using one mouse and keyboard to run three machines.
I keep the Windows machine's mouse in reach, and a keyboard for it lives on top of the (CRT) monitor. Sometimes I want ALT-Print Screen or CTRL-ALT-DEL to get the process manager on the WinXP box, and you can't do that from the synergy server keyboard. One [b]occasional[/b] glitch is that the WinXP client box starts seeing left (server) mouse clicks as right clicks, and right clicks as nothing. If I click once on the left button of the client's mouse, then everything is back to normal - that's why I keep the client's mouse hooked up and in reach.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 19, 2006 10:49 PMI keep the Windows machine's mouse in reach, and a keyboard for it lives on top of the (CRT) monitor. Sometimes I want ALT-Print Screen or CTRL-ALT-DEL to get the process manager on the WinXP box, and you can't do that from the synergy server keyboard. One [b]occasional[/b] glitch is that the WinXP client box starts seeing left (server) mouse clicks as right clicks, and right clicks as nothing. If I click once on the left button of the client's mouse, then everything is back to normal - that's why I keep the client's mouse hooked up and in reach.
I highly recommend using Synergy.
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