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[http://synergy-foss.org/ Synergy] is a brilliant piece of software that doesn't require much effort to get going, Though after that it required me some more time to get it to function just how I want it to = faultless autostart. | |||
Synergy is a brilliant piece of software that doesn't require much effort to get going, Though after that it required me some more time to get it to function just how I want it to = faultless autostart. | |||
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==The Synergys Server:== | ==The Synergys Server:== | ||
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===Installation:=== | ===Installation:=== | ||
Rather than me duplicating it, the Archwiki has a great page on [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synergy | Rather than me duplicating it, the Archwiki has a great page on [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synergy Synergy installation]. | ||
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My '''/etc/hosts''' file follows which should speak for itself: | My '''/etc/hosts''' file follows which should speak for itself: | ||
192.168.1.3 rightpc.localdomain rightpc ## the HP server | 192.168.1.3 rightpc.localdomain rightpc ## the HP server | ||
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Here is a great start (a complete solution in my case) for a very smoothly running pair of machines (easily edited for more though), via one mouse & keyboard being connected to the synergys server - this '''synergy.conf''' is the server configuration file which does the job faultlessly for me: | Here is a great start (a complete solution in my case) for a very smoothly running pair of machines (easily edited for more though), via one mouse & keyboard being connected to the synergys server - this '''synergy.conf''' is the server configuration file which does the job faultlessly for me: | ||
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192.168.1.6 leftpc.localdomain leftpc ## the iMac client | 192.168.1.6 leftpc.localdomain leftpc ## the iMac client | ||
192.168.1.3 rightpc.localdomain rightpc ## the HP server [/code] | 192.168.1.3 rightpc.localdomain rightpc ## the HP server [/code] | ||
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