Share One Keyboard and Mouse across Multiple Computers
Synergy is a free software tool which allows you to share a common keyboard and a mouse between multiple computers on a local network (Linux, Mac, or Windows). Synergy also lets you share Clipboard contents between different systems. It’s essentially the perfect solution for someone working with multiple displays (and operating systems) on a cluttered desktop.
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The only requirement is of a local network connecting all the computers together so you can define one computer as a server and the others as clients. The “server” computer has the keyboard and mouse physically connected to it. Other computers that will share the keyboard and the mouse are the “clients”.
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March 3rd, 2011
Synergy is an extremely good way to manage multiple computers using one mouse and keyboard.
Here is a video tutorial showing every step of how to set it up to simultaneously control a PC, Mac, and Linux machine.
http://vitamincm.com/control-multiple-computers-using-synergy
March 4th, 2011
Hows the response time for this, for gaming. The problem Ive always had is I enjoy a good fps game every now and then and the KVM switches latency is not tight enough. I would think this would be slower no?
March 11th, 2011
Umm Synergy is ok but Input Director is by far a more robust program for virtual kvm.