: Has anyone compared Synergy with VNC for use with multiple computers : on a home network?
I use both on my home network. They have different areas of specialization; each attacks a slightly different problem. There is some overlap in their capabilities. : I just want to see what you guys think of it. It seems to me that it : is operating much like VNC and I wonder if it doesn't have some VNC : code in it (it is GPL'd). I doubt it shares code. In synergy, the server is associated with the keyboard, and the controlled machines are clients. VNC can do the connection in that direction, but synergy's focus makes multiple connections with the same keyboard easy, and VNC's makes multiple connections with the same display easy. : Is there a VNC product that will do this same sort of thing but allow : use of a single monitor? One would have several sessions running in : full screen mode and would switch between them by moving the mouse in : an appropriate direction. I don't know of one. When I am controlling multiple machines, I tend stay in windowed mode (even if each window fills the physical display) and switch between them by lowering the one in the foreground to get at the rest. Having automatic swapping at the edge would be interesting, but I get along without it fairly well. I suspect an edge-swapper script could be added to an ordinary VNC setup; just run a separate "helper process" to monitor mouse movements at the edge of the display, and issue raise/lower or iconization operations for the VNC viewer associated with that screen edge (or region). It could be done in a few tens of lines of perl or tcl/tk, I would think. Since it seems reasonably easy, one may already exist. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
