I have a Windows test machine to the right of my main screens, and a Mac machine to the left. I generally run the server on my Linux machine, and the one at work has two 4k monitors attached to it. The interface in the screenshot above (taken on a Linux system) is all new, and it enables you to graphically layout your screens using a friendly Qt-based interface. Each machine gets its own monitor(s), and the client machines connect to the server (which has the keyboard and mouse physically attached) to receive events. I always used a simple layout, such as the one shown above, to share my keyboard and mouse. It was at this point, well over ten years ago now, that I discovered Synergy, an open source software replacement for a physical KVM switch.īack then it did not have any kind of graphical interface to configure your desktops, but it did have a simple text configuration file for the server where you expressed where each monitor was in relation to the others. Then I obtained a second monitor, which gave me multiple options for different window layouts.Įventually, I stopped using the KVM switch, and ended up with a mess of keyboards and mice strewn all over my desk. I also used VNC and remote desktop software to see what things looked like on other operating systems. When I first started doing cross-platform development I used a KVM switch to share my mouse, keyboard, and monitor between several physical systems.
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