Re:How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k m...
by paranoidrobot on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:35PM
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It says it's a fork of Synergy[0].
So the idea is you have PC A + Monitor A, and PC B + Monitor B.
You install the software on both machines (they talk over a local network), and configure PC A to be left of PC B, and PC B to be right of PC A. Attach a keyboard+mouse to one machine.
When your mouse goes 'off screen right' on PC A, it knows that PC B is over there, so it redirects keyboard/mouse input to PC B.
I used Synergy for a while, and it was pretty great. The only issue is when you need to do control keys that the OS takes over (like CTRL-ALT-DEL on Windows), that wouldn't transfer over, and you'd be looking at Monitor B wondering why keyboard/mouse wasn't working... then look over at Monitor A and see it's at the lock screen.
So the idea is you have PC A + Monitor A, and PC B + Monitor B.
You install the software on both machines (they talk over a local network), and configure PC A to be left of PC B, and PC B to be right of PC A. Attach a keyboard+mouse to one machine.
When your mouse goes 'off screen right' on PC A, it knows that PC B is over there, so it redirects keyboard/mouse input to PC B.
I used Synergy for a while, and it was pretty great. The only issue is when you need to do control keys that the OS takes over (like CTRL-ALT-DEL on Windows), that wouldn't transfer over, and you'd be looking at Monitor B wondering why keyboard/mouse wasn't working... then look over at Monitor A and see it's at the lock screen.
[0] https://symless.com/synergy