I found a problem! last night, my router changed ip's on my desktop, and I lost the keyboard and mouse on my laptop (which I was using for both). Im guessing I left the machine last night with the mouse on the desktop...
anyway, I was able to remedy the problem by dropping to console (ctrl+alt+F1 worked, but other than that, the keyboard and mouse did not work at all on either computer, except the desktop keyboard/mouse still worked on the desktop, the latop was not responding...) and changed my hosts file to point to the right ip, and restart synergy other than that, its been working great so far. my mail on the other hand has gotten kinda mucked up... too much hacking on my .muttrc seems to have created a few places (under both Mail, Maildir) that my mail is stored! and it still doesnt open to my mail dir... Jamie On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:51:55PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > John Sechrest wrote: > > > In reading the documentation, it does not look like > > it is a hardware sharing of the mouse/screen, but a way > > to hook up displays at the application level. > > > > And so this may be useful for screen browsing, but it > > does not look like it would be useful in system rebooting > > and getting access to the bios of any of the other machines. > > You are correct. > > > In addition, it looks like it does not care about location > > of the other machines, so your secondary machines could > > conceivably be far away (depending on bandwidth) > > You are correct there too. The mouse/keyboard event stream is low > bandwidth (hundreds of bytes/second?). > > But keep in mind that if you can't see the other screen, you don't > know what your mouse/keyboard input is doing. > > > I have not yet seen if it support multi user sharing, > > so that one desktop can mirror/reflect someone elses > > desktop. (this would be used for over the phone consulting) > > That would be easy enough to do. If Teacher and Student were sitting > at displays side by side, Teacher would run synergy server and Student > would run synergy client. Then Teacher and Student could both take > turns driving Student's display, each from his own keyboard/mouse. > > That's not what it's for, but it would work. > > > What makes this more interesting than just running Xwindows on a system? > > It's a way to have multiple screens for one user and not need to use > multiple mice and keyboards. The screens are on different hosts and > can be running different OSes. Here are some use cases that I've used > in the last couple of months. > > 1. Linux laptop in docking station has external monitor, keyboard and > mouse. Second laptop running Windows sits on desk running Outlook > and Windows-only client-under-test. I see three screensful of > stuff, and can develop/debug network app that has Windows client > and Linux server without switching keyboards/mice. > > left screen (laptop): Windows client and Outlook > middle screen (external monitor): 4 xterms and an emacs > (the curmudgeon's IDE) > right screen (laptop): server admin browser and > documentation browsers > > 2. Two linux laptops w/ external keyboard and mouse. (I am a klutz > with a trackpad.) Email and IM covering one screen, browsers and > anoraK covering the other. Sort of like a dual-head laptop. > > You can think of it as a way to create a multihead display without > special video cards. Or you can think of it as a way to get Windows > and Linux on separate screens of one display. (I'm using "display" > in the X Windows sense of one user, one keyboard, and one or more > monitors and mice.) > > If you don't crave more screen real estate, it probably doesn't > seem very valuable. > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
