After spending forever trying to figure out how to make my life easier  I decided to write a little tutorial about synergy and quicksynergy to help with the setup 

 

Well let's get started, 

 

Basic idea :

synergy allows to share a mouse and keyboard across multiple computer 

quicksynergy is just the simple linux GUI for synergy

 

 

To keep this simple we will use 3 computers and will not mess with the config files : 

BoxC1, BoxC2 are our client computer 

BoxS  is the server one - the one with the keyboard and mouse to be shared.

 

 

Prerequesit :

-having installed synergy and quicksynergy on all the linux box that you want to share mouse with

sudo apt-get install synergy 

sudo apt-get install quicksynergy 

 

-Get the IP of each BoxS

sudo ifconfig 

 

Assumsions:

- unfiltered local network -> ( because I have a filtered network where i can't even ping another                                                                  machine on the same network  )

 

 

Step 1)      Start Quicksynergy on all the Boxes(from terminal the first couple of time is better as you get to                          see the debug statement in case of issues...)

 

Quicksynergy has 3 tabs :

->the first tab (share) is the server tab 

->the second tab (use)  is a client tab

->the third tab (setting) just specify the path for the application ( you shouldn't need to                                                                                                                         change it )

 

Step 2)      select the first tab on BoxS

                   and  the Second tab on BoxC1 and BoxC2

 

Step 3)      On BoxC1 and BoxC2 enter the BoxS IP and a name for each one BoxC1 and BoxC2

let's call  BoxC1  - M1 

and  BoxC2  - M2

 

Step 4)      On BoxS click one of the textbox and enter the name of the BoxC1 and them click on another text                         box and enter the name of  BoxC2.

So for instance a setup will be having M1 on the left and M2 on the right ( BoxS being represented by the house in the middle.. localhost(made me think of localhouse lol) )

 

Step 5)       Click Execute on BoxS 

                    Click Execute on BoxCs

 

And you should be set, you can now enjoy not having 3 different mouses/keyboards and be frustrated when switching from one to the other ( yeah i'm a multitask-freak.. )

 

 

ps: this is my first tutorial, so let me know what you think and give me any tips for improvements.

thank you :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After spending forever trying to figure out how to make my life easier with my messy desktop I decided to write a little tutorial about synergy and quicksynergy to help with the setup 

 

Well let's get started, 

 

basic idea :

synergy allows to share a mouse and keyboard across multiple computer 

quicksynergy is just the simple linux GUI for synergy

 

 

To keep this simple we will use 3 computers and will not mess with the config files : 

BoxC1, BoxC2 are our client computer 

BoxS  is the server one - the one with the keyboard and mouse to be shared.

 

 

Prerequesit :

-having installed synergy and quicksynergy on all the linux box that you want to share mouse with

sudo apt-get install synergy 

sudo apt-get install quicksynergy 

 

-Get the IP of each BoxS

sudo ifconfig 

 

Assumsions:

- unfiltered local network -> ( because I have a filtered network where i can't even ping another machine on the same network  )

 

 

Step 1) start Quicksynergy on all the Boxes(from terminal the first couple of time is better as you get to see the debug statement in case of issues...)

 

Quicksynergy has 3 tabs :

->the first tab (share) is the server tab 

->the second tab (use)  is a client tab

->the third tab (setting) just specify the path for the application ( you shouldn't need to change it )

 

Step 2) select the first tab on BoxS

and  the Second tab on BoxC1 and BoxC2

 

Step 3) On BoxC1 and BoxC2 enter the BoxS IP and a name for each one BoxC1 and BoxC2

let call  BoxC1  - M1 

and  BoxC2  - M2

 

Step 4) On BoxS click one of the textbox and enter the name of the BoxC1 and them click on another text box and enter the name of  BoxC2

so for instance a setup will be having M1 on the left and M2 on the right ( BoxS being represented by the house in the middle.. localhost(made me think of localhouse lol) )

 

Step 5) Click Execute on BoxS

Click Execute on BoxCs

 

And you should be set, you can now enjoy not having 3 different mouses/keyboards and be frustrated when switching from one to the other ( yeah i'm a multitask-freak.. )

 

 

ps: this is my first tutorial, so let me know what you think and give me any tips for improvements.

thank you :)