Friday, July 08, 2011

Share Your Mouse and Keyboard

Here is a quick way to share your keyboard and mouse between the systems you are working with. Also, you get a common text clipboard so that you can easily share the texts between the systems.

Download:
Synergy Binary 1.3.1

Linux Configuration:
section: screens
master_system:
slave_system:
end
section: links
master_system:
right = slave_system
slave_system:
left = master_system
end

Note: You might miss the ':' after the screen names in the 'section' part.

Starting in Linux: (As Master)
synergys --config <conf_path>/synergy.conf

Starting in Linux: (As Slave)
synergyc --config <conf_path>/synergy.conf

Starting this way in Linux will run Synergy in silent mode, so that you don't get any logs in the terminal to debug. You can always turn the verbose on while starting the server just with '--debug <level>' option. Make sure you start the Synergy as root user in Linux.
To learn about more options use 'synergys --help' or synergyc --help'.

Windows Configuration:
Configuring Windows as Master

Configure Windows as Slave


After Configuring in Windows, just click on "Test" Button to confirm whether the setup is working properly or not. Set the log level accordingly to debug the error. Once you confirm its working fine, close the test and just start synergy.