Share your keyboard and mouse with other computers with Synergy

When you have more than one team the need to work with more than one computer often arises, whatever the task it takes to work with your keyboard and mouse on each computer separately. When you are at the office, work, school or even at home this work can be a bit tedious.

Esto mainly because you have to move to one side to another even that the most practical thing would be to have the computers together not many times this is possible, especially when it comes to common computers and not laptops.

Although the most practical thing is to connect the equipment by remote session, this entails having to allocate a part of your screen and is not usually the most ideal if you have the equipment at a safe distance.

This is where an application comes in to support us that I have used for several years and that will allow us to share a keyboard and mouse with several computers at the same time.

Application the one I'm talking about is Synergy, is a software that allows you to share a keyboard and mouse between multiple computers without the need for any additional hardware. It is also capable of sharing the clipboard between different machines from one to another.

Synergy is a cross-platform and open source application, is licensed under the GNU General Public License. This application gives us the way to be able to integrate into computers that run on different operating systems, such as Unix, GNU / Linux, Macintosh and Windows.

How to install Syngery on Linux?

Application was found within the repositories of almost most distributions, but because its creators had made the decision to limit the distribution of compiled packages, the only way to obtain it was by paying for the application.

This led to the discontent of many, which is why some distributions remove the package from their repositories.

Application we can get it for free from the official website of the project, pbut we must register to be able to obtain the compiled package, in addition to the fact that the version that it offers us is not the most recent, but it is stable.

In the case of Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives provide us with the application compiled in deb format, we just have to download and install it with our preferred package manager.

In the case of Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat, openSUSE and any distribution that has support for rpm packages, we can also obtain the package already compiled to install it with our preferred package manager.

Finally, we can also download the source code of the application to compile it on our computer.

To do this, we open a terminal and execute the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/symless/synergy-core.git
cd synergy-core
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

How to configure Synergy?

Once the installation is done on our computer, we must look for it in our applications menu and open Synergy.

When opening it the first time and for the only time a configuration wizard will be executed which is intuitive, basically The program will ask us if we want to configure the machine that we will use as a server or as a client.

The server is the main machine, the one that will share the use of mouse and keyboard with the other computers. It will also ask for a serial, which is provided at registration and can be viewed in your account.

Now they only have to configure the equipment, they must have Synergy installed on all the equipment that will be used with this function.

 configure server

Inside a sale will be displayed and there will be an image of a monitor and another in the center type grid there, that is to say that the monitor in the center is the server and we only have to drag the image of the monitor from the upper right to represent the customers that they connect.

The name of the screen must be configured in the other equipment in the menu> edit> options.

Finally, the server computer provides you with an IP which must be entered in the clients.

If you know of any other application to share the keyboard and mouse, do not hesitate to share it with us in the comments.