Apologies for being absent and a quick question

[womzilla]

I have been astonishingly busy since getting back from Florida, so I haven't had a chance to post. And I don't have a chance right now, really, except to ask this quick question:

Anyone here have experience with Synergy? It's a Sourceforge app which allows you to control two or more computers with the same mouse and keyboard without using a KVM.

Comments

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Well, it's just KM, so it's not really headless. I've had lots of experience with VNC, which I love to death (we did an eval of all the remote platforms once and VNC was only beat by one commercial app for performance, but the eval is old enough to be out of date).

What are you wanting to do?

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

And I'd put in a recommendation for tightvnc, especially least for Linux/Windows cross-platform work. None of the VNC implementations I've tried works perfectly, but it seems to have the fewest major problems.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

We have both VNC and MSTSC ("Remote Desktop") at work and rely much more on the latter than the former. MSTSC does have two limitations: It only works on MS Windows machines and only one person can be logged into a single desktop session simultaneously, but neither of those really comes up that often in our work, and MSTSC is *wicked* fast and lightweight compared to the VNCs we've tried.

My initial question may actually now be moot, for work purposes anyway. What I wanted was pretty much exactly what Synergy claims to provide--the ability to run a single keyboard and mouse to two computers in their native desktops and move between them just by moving the mouse from one screen to the other. I don't mind using a KVM (I've been doing so for years), but I liked the idea of removing that barrier.