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

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:01 AM,  <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:
> Imagine.....
>
> A windows system with a monitor, a mac laptop. a Linux system with a
> monitor. Bouncing from keyboard and mouse is a PITA. Synergy allows you to
> connect the mouse and keyboard to one system and seamlessly move the mouse
> across all three monitors, and which ever monitor has the mouse, gets the
> keyboard.

My problem with this is that you need a desk big enough for three
displays.   If I'm going to have more then one display on my desk I
would like to be able to sometimes have them all attached to a single
system.   With Synergy each display is still dedicated to a single
system.   The best possible system might be one that has a single
keyboard/mouse and a bunch of displays (with physical monitor
switching) which would allow me to on the fly map the physical video
outputs from the individual systems in any way that I wanted onto the
physical displays which are in front of me.   All while still
retaining Synergy's ability to let me slide my mouse (and my keyboard
input as well) from system to system across the wall of displays.
Synergy would have to know  the current mapping of system video output
to physical display to relay the input correctly.   If there are
programmatically controllable multiple input/output video switching
devices this could be done.   I suspect that the hardware required
would be pricey though.

Bill Bogstad