7 Screen Synergy w/ Mac/Windows/Linux

What you see here is a Synergy setup with 7 screens. There is a Mac Mini powering the Synergy Server, and there are Two Ubuntu machines, One Powerbook with an extended External screen, and a Windows XP Laptop, with an extended external screen. As an aside, I threw in a couple of shots of some neat effects with some 3d desktops, and some vistual desktops on the Windows XP machine. Enjoy

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• Synergy2

[DigitalHubris]

Any way to get Synergy to have two computers work as the server, and use one monitor together?

In my office we have a 40" tv hooked up to a laptop. My two bosses would like to be able to use that screen as a 2nd monitor from time to time (probably never at the same time, so no mouse fighting).

I could always just swap the server name on the attached laptop, but looking for a way to have the Client look for two servers.

[Sembetu]

@DigitalHubris :: I have never actually done it that way. However, if I were to try it, I would hook both machines up to a single display, in different video ports. Most of my displays come with both VGA and DVI, and it is very common to see that. Once you have them both hooked up to the same display, you should be able to just switch the video source on the display itself, and when you mouse from one machine to the other, you would see that on the second [read video input] "virtual" display.

[Supertomiman]

cool, but why is there like a baby crying?

[Sembetu]

The baby is my daughter in the background. You know kids... :/

[skater60188]

you could have done so much more with this but instead you say 'let's have some fun' and look at a picture of a tree...not impressed

[Tinuserviceline]

congratulations, now ur officially a NERD xD

[nohajc]

@commodore256 Who cares about UAC, just turn the damn thing off! :D

[MisterDoctorNerd]

yo dawg, I herd you like computers, so i put a computer in yo computer in yo computer in yo computer in yo computer in yo computer in yo computer so you can compute while you compute you compute you compute you compute you compute you compute.

[conspiritor2]

What's name of baby?

[commodore256]

I tried Synergy and UAC doesn't like it when the computer that's using UAC isn't the host.

In other words, if you run a client on windows and you get a UAC prompt, you'll be fucked because your keyboard and mouse won't work.

[DigitalHubris]

Actually, I just rolled the dice and it worked.

I added Server1 and Server2 to the Client's list of computers, and it just worked.

One thin that may have made a difference is that I have Server1 being to the left of the client, and Server2 being to the right of the client.

Haven't tested it out to see if it made difference, but it works.

[jcub33]

Why would you need this kind of setup?

[WMisiedjanTech]

Love this application, First app I've ever seen thats suchs as smooth