Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It`s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems.
Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.
With Synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of only one of the computers while you use all of the monitors on all of the computers.
You tell Synergy how many screens you have and their positions relative to one another. Synergy then detects when the mouse moves off the edge of a screen and jumps it instantly to the neighboring screen. The keyboard works normally on each screen; input goes to whichever screen has the cursor.
Sinergy is cross-platform and works on Mac OS X, UNIX and Windows systems.
Installation
To install on Mac OS X with the .zip distribution you must follow these steps:
1. Extract the zip file to any location (usually double click will do this)
2. Open Terminal, and cd to the extracted directory (e.g. /Users/my-name/Downloads/extracted-dir/)
3. Change to super user (use the su command)
4. Copy the binaries to /usr/bin using: cp synergy* /usr/bin
Once the binaries have been copied to /usr/bin, you should follow the configuration guide.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Major features:
· New Linux GUI (based on QSynergy by Volker Lanz) included in deb and rpm packages
· Individual Mac OS X versions available (10.4, 10.5, 10.6) -- though, these are unstable
· QT and vcredist dependencies now included in Windows installers (just like in 1.3.6)
