How to eliminate a USB hub and a bunch of wires when interfaceing with your DT
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 3:15 pm
Hey Everyone,
Gotta say thank you to everyone here. I have learned so much in the past month. Recently I learned of a great tool that helped me eliminate a lot of wiring, a ubs hub, one keyboard and a mouse all together when I interface with my DT.
Synergy is a cross platform solution that is two part. Right now I have the server running on my apple computer. Over wifi I am able to configure the sharing of the keyboard and the mouse almost as a how a second monitor would act. I bring the pointer to the left side of my screen on the mac and keep going left. With no lag whatsoever the pointer appears on my DT. Keyboard is about the same thing. Click on the window you with to type in and viola. Configuration was pretty startight forward and requires the running of the client on the DT.
Mac:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22270
Win:
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=59275&filename=SynergyInstaller-1.3.1.exe&a=80035752
Linux:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=406637
for rpm and source
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=synergy
For debian
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/synergy/
For Slackware
Thanks go to Foxx for bringing this amazing tool to my attention.
Edit** While this works very well for desktop usage please know that running wifi and bluetooth sannning utilities may disrupt the linking between the client and the server. Especially if you are sharing a bluetooth keyboard.
Gotta say thank you to everyone here. I have learned so much in the past month. Recently I learned of a great tool that helped me eliminate a lot of wiring, a ubs hub, one keyboard and a mouse all together when I interface with my DT.
Synergy is a cross platform solution that is two part. Right now I have the server running on my apple computer. Over wifi I am able to configure the sharing of the keyboard and the mouse almost as a how a second monitor would act. I bring the pointer to the left side of my screen on the mac and keep going left. With no lag whatsoever the pointer appears on my DT. Keyboard is about the same thing. Click on the window you with to type in and viola. Configuration was pretty startight forward and requires the running of the client on the DT.
Mac:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22270
Win:
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=59275&filename=SynergyInstaller-1.3.1.exe&a=80035752
Linux:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=406637
for rpm and source
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=synergy
For debian
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/synergy/
For Slackware
Thanks go to Foxx for bringing this amazing tool to my attention.
Edit** While this works very well for desktop usage please know that running wifi and bluetooth sannning utilities may disrupt the linking between the client and the server. Especially if you are sharing a bluetooth keyboard.