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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[Robert Oldenburg]

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]

:: 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... :/

[r0wd3]

What are you using as a stand for your laptops? I am after something much the same.

[Sembetu]

I am using a customized rolling laptop table with the wood top removed and a metal laptop stand in its place. That allows me to have greater vertical articulation of the laptop without risking unexpected tipping. Also, since I attached the laptop stand myself, I was able to turn in 90 degrees, which the stock rolling laptop desk did not allow me to do. I hope this helps.

[Ryan Ritchie]

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

[commodore256]

Thanks,I'll try that next time I re-install it

I hated that turn UAC off comment, turnning off UAC is security hole.

[MrDerpibgton]

@ThePsoinas Isn't gonna happen dumbass, YouTube has reached the point where it NEEDS ads otherwise it would shut down IMMEDIATELY, do you know how expensive it is to keep millions of videos stored and streamed through servers?

[Carl Lewis]

wheres the fun?

[nohajc]

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.

[Robert Oldenburg]

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.