Synergy

THE ideal way to share you keyboard and mouse with more computers in your LAN without additional hardware needed!

See the enclosed documents from Synergy !

For Windows, Unix, OSX and Linux



Share your keyboard & mouse, wired or wireless, through your LAN

 My hardware configuration, 3 computers, 5 screens, 1 keyboard and 1 mouse (both
Bluetooth):

Dual screen configuration Dual screen configuration Single screen configuration



The physical position of my screens and keyboard and mouse

The settings of my MAC computer / screens:

The settings of my Windows 7 computer:

The settings of my Windows XP computer:

The relative coordinates of my several screen compared with its neighbours screen:
By moving the mouse (up, down,left or right) and it reaches the border of the screen it is visible in, the
mouse pointer will enter the screen indicated by the color-movement direction. There are no dead spaces in
the borders of the screens:
The definition of the config file for Synergy on my MAC. The MAC computer is the "server" from the keyboard
& mouse. (See the synergy.conf file)

section: screens
The declaration of my computer screens
HSM00.LOCAL:

HSM01:

HSM02:

end


section: aliases
HSM00.LOCAL: The declaration of the screen aliases used
HSM00_LCD
HSM00_MAIN
HSM01:
HSM01_MAIN
HSM01_TV
end
The linking definition of the MAC (HSM00.LOCAL) screen(s) to its neighbours:

section: links
HSM00.LOCAL:

right(0,56) = HSM01_MAIN(0,57)
right(56,100) = HSM00_MAIN(0,56)
left(0,56) = HSM02

left(88,100) = HSM01_MAIN(0,11)
left(57,88) = HSM01_MAIN(0,1)
down(0,14) = HSM02(13,14)
down(14,86) = HSM02(14,86)

down(86,100) = HSM02(86,87)
The linking definition of the Windows 7 (HSM01) screen(s) to its neighbours:


HSM01:

left(0,57) = HSM00_MAIN(0,56)

right(0,11) = HSM00_LCD(88,100)

right(11,15) = HSM00_LCD(99,100)

right(15,57) = HSM02(0,77)

right(57,100) = HSM01_MAIN(0,57)

left(57,100) = HSM01_MAIN(0,57)
The linking definition of the Windows XP (HSM02) screen to its neighbours:


HSM02:
left(0,77) = HSM01_MAIN(15,57)
right = HSM00_MAIN(0,56)
up(14,86) = HSM00_LCD
up(0,14) = HSM00_LCD(0,1)

up(86,100) = HSM00_LCD(99,100)
end
The location of the synergy folder on my MAC:

The command line in the Terminal.app to start Synergie:

/Applications/Utilities/synergy/synergys -f --config /Applications/Utilities/synergy/synergy.conf

The way I start terminal.app:

The terminal window after I started Terminal.app:

HSM00:~ harry$ /Applications/Utilities/synergy/synergys -f --config
/Applications/Utilities/synergy/synergy.conf

INFO: Synergy server 1.3.1 on Darwin 10.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version

10.3.0: Fri Feb 26 11:58:09 PST 2010; root:xnu-
1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

NOTE: started server

NOTE: accepted client connection

NOTE: client "HSM02" has connected

NOTE: accepted client connection

NOTE: client "HSM01" has connected

INFO: switch from "HSM00.LOCAL" to "HSM01" at 0,260

INFO: leaving screen

INFO: switch from "HSM01" to "HSM00.LOCAL" at 1278,259

INFO: entering screen

INFO: switch from "HSM00.LOCAL" to "HSM01" at 0,261

INFO: leaving screen

INFO: switch from "HSM01" to "HSM02" at 106,190
INFO: switch from "HSM02" to "HSM00.LOCAL" at 478,1808
INFO: entering screen

INFO: switch from "HSM00.LOCAL" to "HSM01" at 1279,166

Starting up Windows computer:

My Windows synergy setting (configuration):
HSM01 HSM02