Since I have switched my laptop to Ubuntu and I managed to hear redirected sound from remote machine, I would like to utilize that remote machine to make it more useful instead of just expensive speaker. Anyway, the remote machine is an eMac. Eventually, I found Synergy. I also found that it is not easy to explain the use of Synergy. Imagine that you have two machines on your desk; a laptop and a desktop. I don't know which one you like the most. In my case, I do like to work on my laptop so I just use desktop for playing sound and browsing another web page at the same time. To make it real, I have to turn around to move another mouse device and keyboard connected to the desktop machine. Synergy simplifies my living style by letting me to use my laptop's keyboard and mouse device to control the desktop just like the ones connected physically. For more detail, my desktop machine is placed on a raised wood so it approximately next to the top of my laptop. Synergy makes it possible to move mouse pointer from my laptop virtually off-screen to the top edge and suddenly appear on the very bottom of desktop screen. Cool! In other words, my mouse pointer is now able to move across screens connected to different machines.

The best thing of Synergy over all of its competitors is that I can tile as many as screens I want in any alignment, up down left right. Today I have another machine to install AccessGrid software. So I just installed Synergy and aligned this new screen next to the left of my laptop. That means I have 3 screens; my laptop in the middle, eMac in the top and this new desktop in the left. These 3 screens are accessible through my laptop.

Fortunately, I found a good article that helps me quickly configure Synergy effectively.

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