Share keyboard and mouse between multiple Windows, Linux, and Mac computers with or without a KVM switch
Synergy
Synergy may be defined as two or more entities working together to produce a result individually unobtainable.
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, (and here’s the key part) without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers and monitors on their desk.
One mouse, one keyboard, controlling multiple Windows, Linux, and Mac systems. I’ve been looking for something like this for years!
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.
I’ve used it between two Fedora 12 machines, one a laptop the other a desktop, and it worked flawlessly. There is no delay when moving between desktops, no stutter, or lag in the mouse movement or keyboard input. It just works. But that was just multiple Linux machines. Good luck getting Windows and Mac to work, right? No problem! Synergy to the rescue.
Synergy+
http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus
Described by its creators as “…a maintenance fork for implementing bug fixes to the original Synergy by Chris Schoeneman…”
Both Synergy and Synergy+ use the same configuration and the same synergys and synergyc daemons to connect.
If you want to try it between multiple machines, you just need to make a simple config similar to this, and put it on the one computer you designate as the server:
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http://www.rootninja.com/share-keyboard-and-mouse-between-multiple-windows-linux-and-mac-computers/
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