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Install a software-only keyboard/monitor switcher
Although mac only, there is also a nice project which is in development called Teleport. Also many of the new (2~3 years and more) monitors have dual input and allow you to switch betwen the two input at the push of the button. My does and it's made by nec, but I know other company (Sony to name only one) do to. I only wish it would be a full KVM with the included usb hub! Sadly, sometimes I still do need to have a "hard" link to the other machine as the Soft-KV has issues with fast user switching and I use it a lot on the other machine. I was thinking of making a usb switch for those times from 3 usb cables and an old 10$ vga switch, what do you guys think?
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Install a software-only keyboard/monitor switcher
Hmmm I have decided to give Synergy a try, it's nice, got it to work with autostartup on both machines (OS X)... One problems comes to me, which Teleport also sports, is that it doesn't support Fast User Switching, which is a big issue to me, anyone has an idea?
Install a software-only keyboard/monitor switcher
Wow I finally got this to work. I can't believe I am the only one in this situation so here's a quick overview of how I managed to do it.
first off my synergy.conf file:
section: screens TechPad: xsmurf: server: end section: links # larry is to the right of moe and curly is above moe TechPad: left = xsmurf right = server xsmurf: right = TechPad server: left = TechPad end section: aliases # curly is also known as shemp TechPad: TechPad.local xsmurf: fripouille.local server: 192.168.1.20 endNot that fripouille.local and 192.168.1.20 is are the same machine. and xsmurf and server are the two user I use with Fast User Switching. Now on the client side use the method of your choice to start synergyc client. But make sure that one thread will be started for each user. I start synergyc with $ synergyc -n USER_NAME SERVER_IP. So now I have one user on one side of the server monitor and one o the left. It's not ideal, but it does the job good. The only thing it will not allow you to control is the login window. ---
Install a software-only keyboard/monitor switcher
Sorry, should have been (ho yeah, and TechPad is obviously the server host):
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