[Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org
Mon Jul 7 10:28:06 EDT 2014


On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:04:48AM -0400, John Malloy wrote:
> What is the easiest way to share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops
> (Linux & Windows)?
> 
> Has anyone used this synergy-project:
> 
> http://synergy-project.org/download/

Yup. It's worked reasonably well for years.

Note that copying and pasting large amounts of text between
systems is sometimes horrendously slow, and you must use an
SSH tunnel between the systems if you value your security at
all.

-dsr-



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