{"id":24,"date":"2008-08-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/software-love-synergy\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T12:00:00","slug":"software-love-synergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/software-love-synergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Love: Synergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synergy <\/strong>is an Open Source utility that allows you to share your keyboard and mouse between multiple computers.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0 like a KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) swtich, but without the V, and without the hardware.\u00a0 <strong>It\u2019s free<\/strong>, and it works great!\u00a0 I liked having multiple monitors and multiple systems on my desk, but I always hated the multiple keyboards and mice.\u00a0 Now I have my desktop LCD monitor and my laptop sitting next to each other and both are controlled by my Microsoft Media Keyboard 3000 (I\u2019m not a MS fan but this works really well and was only $30) and my <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081120030011\/http:\/\/www.feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/2008\/07\/27\/product-love-logitech-v220-wireless-mouse\/\">Logitech V220 wireless mouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To get running, you\u2019ll need to first download <strong>Synergy<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081120030011\/http:\/\/synergy2.sourceforge.net)\/\">http:\/\/synergy2.sourceforge.net<\/a>) and install on each of the machines that you are going to use it on.\u00a0 Installation is easy.\u00a0 After that, just set up one machine as the \u2019server\u2019 and the other as the \u2018client\u2019.\u00a0 My keyboard and mouse are plugged into my desktop PC, so that\u2019s my \u2019server\u2019 and then I set up the laptop to communicate with the server.\u00a0 It\u2019s really pretty easy.<\/p>\n<p>The initial setup took a few minutes to figure out, but the keyboard and mouse are plugged into the desktop, and Synergy is running on both machines.\u00a0 All I have to do is scroll off to the right of my desktop screen and I\u2019m on the laptop.\u00a0 I was expecting some keyboard and mouse lag on the laptop due to Synergy running over the LAN, but it works GREAT.\u00a0 No lag or issues at all so far.<\/p>\n<p>The software also works on Macs and Linux based machines, so you can control a PC and a Mac that you have sitting next to each other if you want to.\u00a0 Very useful.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081120030011\/http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/\">TechRepublic<\/a> for posting a video blog entry about it!\u00a0 I never thought this type of thing existed but it\u2019s exactly what I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>My new work desk setup, complete with the two systems (well, technically 8 with the virtual machines running\u2026):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081120030011im_\/http:\/\/www.feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo_08.jpg\" width=\"300\"\/><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synergy is an Open Source utility that allows you to share your keyboard and mouse between multiple computers.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0 like a KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) swtich, but without the V, and without the hardware.\u00a0 It\u2019s free, and it works great!\u00a0 I liked having multiple monitors and multiple systems on my desk, but I always hated the multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nerd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}