On the main window, make sure 'Configure Interactively' is selected and click on 'Configure Server'.If you don't know the hostname of the server, run the hostname command from a Terminal window. If you choose to use only the first-party methods, you can install synergy from the software center or their website.įollow one of these section steps on the computer with the keyboard and mouse. The first two are provided by the synergy package, while the third is provided by a third-party application called QuickSynergy. Most of this guide is dated if you are using the newer versions from the Synergy website mentioned above. Additionally, the newer versions have added encryption. NOTE: The more current release versions of Synergy include the server, client, and a GUI in one package.

More documentation is available on the Synergy website. Warning! Synergy is not very secure at all! Consider - you are setting up something to allow an entirely different computer control the keyboard and mouse on your own computer! Don't try and use this anywhere unsecure! There is a way of making it more secure by running it over OpenSSH, but that is currently beyond the scope of this article. This HOWTO lets you know how to get Synergy set up and running on your Ubuntu system. The computer with the keyboard and mouse is the server or host, and the computers with the displays to be controlled remotely are the clients. The computers can be running Linux, Windows, or OS X. Synergy is a program that will let you use one keyboard and mouse on multiple computers across a network. Autostart Synergy before logging in (LightDM).Autostart Synergy before logging in (KDM).Autostart Synergy before logging in (GDM).Autostart Synergy after logging in (GNOME).Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.4.0-beta1 Native TLS on Mac and Windows, a new Command Monitoring API, and dozens of other features.Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.4.0 Now with native TLS on Mac and Windows, no need for OpenSSL there.Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.4.1 Three minor bugfixes.Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.4.2 Fixes two bugs in 'minPoolSize' logic.The Saga of Concurrent DNS: My Article in the MongoDB Engineering Journal In the MongoDB Engineering Journal I sing the ballad of my quest: making getaddrinfo concurrent on CPython.Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.5.0 MongoDB 3.4 support, topology-change monitoring, and Decimal128 support.Making getaddrinfo Concurrent in Python On Mac OS and BSD How I discovered the ancient secrets of BSD wizards and slew a mutex troll.Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.5.1 Crash on NUMA, better errors from auth, OpenSSL build fixes.Two Dramatic Performances About getaddrinfo The BSD Now podcast and BSD Synergy channel did lively readings of my getaddrinfo story.Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.5.3 Fixes bugs in Windows TLS, building with MinGW or on FreeBSD, and complex queries.

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