Desktop relevance

[jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:30:43PM -0400, Rich Braun wrote:
> The VMware Server 2.0 solution royally *sucks*.  I hate it!  I'm almost ready
> to give up on it but don't want to because I like being able to copy/paste
> stuff between Linux and Microsoft apps running on a single display.  On both


Rich, have you looked at Synergy? lets you use Linux and Win.
displays from one keyboard/mouse - It allows cross system pastes. 

Useful if you are going to have more than one machine running
even if they are different OS'es. I used to use it all the time.
(before I stopped using win)

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

synergy: [noun] a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct
elements

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between
multiple computers with different operating systems, each with
its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for
users with multiple computers on their desk since each system
uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the
mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the
clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste
between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so
they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is
enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.
Learn more about how it works.

Synergy is open source and released under the GNU Public License
(GPL).

System Requirements

    * Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (the Windows
95 family)
    * Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (the Windows
NT family)
    * Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
    * Unix
          o X Windows version 11 revision 4 or up
          o XTEST extension
            (use "xdpyinfo | grep XTEST" to check for XTEST) 

All systems must support TCP/IP networking.

"Unix" includes Linux, Solaris, Irix and other variants. Synergy
has only been extensively tested on Linux and may not work
completely or at all on other versions of Unix. Patches are
welcome (including patches that package binaries) at the patches
page.

The Mac OS X port is incomplete. It does not synchronize the
screen saver, only text clipboard data works (i.e. HTML and
bitmap data do not work), the cursor won't hide when not on the
screen, and there may be problems with mouse wheel acceleration.
Other problems should be filed as bugs. 


Jeff