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

[effigies at riseup.net (Chris Johnson)]

On 07/07/2014 10:28 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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.

Agree with the above, and note that the QuickSynergy interface makes
Synergy extremely easy to use. I've also made a modification to allow
users to check a "Use SOCKS proxy" box that manages an SSH tunnel.

https://github.com/effigies/quicksynergy-gtk