Comments on: Synergy – Share Your Mouse and Keyboard Between Multiple Computers

By: Divine

Divine — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:05:08 +0000

My issue with most apps is that they usually work better on other platforms. Synergy does a good job of not sharing this issue so that’s cool. And while I don’t have use for Synergy until I can afford to run multiple systems at once, I can only imagine how advanced similar apps would have gotten by then.

By: Divine

Divine — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:46:34 +0000

In reply to Daniel Castillo.

There have been several improvements since I covered Synergy so maybe you should check it out again

By: michael biller

michael biller — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:37:43 +0000

I am a little late to the game on this one but you can compile Synergy from source if you aren’t in a position to fork out the $. Of course, you won’t get service going that route. I compiled it, used it and found it useful enough to warrant purchase. Now I am able to set it up on any machine without hassle.

It is available in the Ubuntu repositories, as well and it works well among my Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based systems. The paid version works with openSUSE and Arch, as well as Ubuntu and the customer services couldn’t be better. They let me get a Windows version for no extra charge. Now all of my computers are happy campers. Well, almost. Windows wishes it was Linux I think because it sure is trying to get in bed.

Synergy is great because I use several systems and being able to share the mouse and keyboard among them has proven incredibly handy. It also cut down on some clutter.

By: Divine

Divine — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:26:34 +0000

In reply to Kent Seaton.

Hehe alright then. Let’s see how things go

By: Kent Seaton

Kent Seaton — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:58:52 +0000

Still have their last free binary releases somewhere in my archives. Haven’t had a need or want for it since going full-time Linux.

By: Daniel Castillo

Daniel Castillo — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:23:39 +0000

I use it once, a while ago there was a free version of one of their oldest versions, even though it worked fine with my linux-mac laptops combination, whenever i set linux as the main keyboard, pressing the space bar resulted in printing an s or any weird character instead of the actual space ” “. Didnt have the same problem when setting the mac as primary though. Hopefully the paid version doesn’t have that same problem