{"id":444,"date":"2012-08-06T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T11:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/?p=444"},"modified":"2012-08-06T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T11:45:26","slug":"synergy-share-mouse-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/synergy-share-mouse-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Synergy &#8211; share mouse and keyboard across network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a cross platform network \u00a0mouse sharing program (KVM) I came across synergy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/synergy-foss.org\/\">http:\/\/synergy-foss.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/synergy-foss.org\/img\/splash\/splash-en.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It works well, but I did run into a less than obvious configuration issue &#8211;<br \/>\ninitially once I&#8217;d installed it on a PC (with the mouse) and a Macbook (as client),<br \/>\nthe Macbook couldn&#8217;t connect.<\/p>\n<p>These messages appeared in the log:<\/p>\n<p>Warning: Unrecognized client name &#8220;XXX&#8221;, check server config<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-445\" title=\"Image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Image1-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It turns out you need to add the hostname of any connected computer in the settings page,<br \/>\nby dragging the screen icon from top right onto the grid somewhere next to your main screen:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-446\" title=\"Image2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Image2-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and then it&#8217;s important to rename it to match the client &#8216;s hostname, otherwise you&#8217;ll get the same errors as above.<\/p>\n<p>Once that&#8217;s done it works great, and I&#8217;m now able to share the same mouse across multiple computers just by moving the mouse off the edge of each screen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can download it for yourself over at<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/synergy-foss.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a cross platform network \u00a0mouse sharing program (KVM) I came across synergy: http:\/\/synergy-foss.org\/ It works well, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}