[GD-General] Two monitors? Two computers!

[Enno R. <en...@de...>]

I really *love* http://synergy2.sf.net/ - so much that I'll rave about it 
here :-)

I've come across this cool piece of software a couple of weeks ago that lets 
you share the mouse pointer, keyboard and clipboard between two and more 
machines, no matter what OS they run.

To clarify that a bit: I have a Linux and a Windows PC under my desk, each 
with its own monitor - Windows left, Linux right. When the mouse leaves the 
windows machine's screen towards the right, it enters the Linux screen from 
the left, and vice versa - it's like dual monitors, but with a different 
machine on each. And the keyboard follows the mouse to the other machine, so 
no more second keyboard&mouse on my desk, more space for paper. And when I 
plug in the notebook, it appears as a screen to the left of the windows box :-)

In addition, the clipboard can be shared. I can grab a URL from Internet 
Explorer, and paste it into my Linux shell to do a wget, grab some code from 
a mail in Mozilla and paste it into an editor window on the other machine. 
Very, very nifty.

Enno.