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The original version of Synergy had not been updated for a notable length of time (as of 6 June 2010, the latest release was 2 April 2006). Synergy+ was created in 2009 as a maintenance fork for the purpose of fixing bugs inherited from the original version. It provides most of the features of the original and adds a few improvements. Synergy is a from-scratch reimplementation of CosmoSynergy.

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CosmoSynergy was a great success but Cosmo Software declined to productize it and the company was later closed. They wrote it, and Chris Schoeneman contributed, to solve a problem: most of the engineers in Cosmo Software had both an Irix and a Windows box on their desks and switchboxes were expensive and annoying. The first incarnation of Synergy was CosmoSynergy, created by Richard Lee and Adam Feder then at Cosmo Software, Inc., a subsidiary of SGI (née Silicon Graphics, Inc.), at the end of 1996. TCP/IP communications ( default port 24800 ) are used to send mouse, keyboard and clipboard events between computers in Synergy 1. In July 2013 the Defuse Security Group reported the proprietary encryption used in Synergy 1.6 to be insecure and released an exploit which could be used to passively decrypt the commands sent to the Synergy 1.6 clients.

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This previously required the purchase of the Pro edition in version 1. The keyboard and mouse are connected to the server machine.Īs of version 2.0 (2017) keystrokes, mouse movements and clipboard contents are sent via an encrypted SSL network connection. The program is implemented as a server which defines which screen-edges lead to which machines, and one or more clients, which connect to the server to offer the use of their desktops. The clipboard and even screensavers can be synchronized. This makes it possible to control several machines as easily as if they were a single multi-monitor computer. Key presses will be delivered to whichever computer the mouse-pointer is located in. This will allow you to lock your screen even while using Synergy.Once the program is installed, users can move the mouse 'off' the side of their desktop on one computer, and the mouse pointer will appear on the desktop of another computer. You can get a padlock icon to appear in your Menu Bar and when you click on that one of the options in the menu is 'Lock Screen' (see first figure below). for the last week I’ve been turning off Synergy each time I wanted to lock my computer and that’s just not ideal at all so I did some Googling on the matter and found a good solution. SynergyKM also adds an extra panel to your System Preferences to allow you to configure Synergy both as a client and a server (see second screen shot).įor some reason when you are using Synergy to connect your Mac to another keyboard and mouse and you have a hot-corner set up to lock the screen it doesn’t work while Synergy is on. SynergyKM gives you a nice Synergy icon on the Menu Bar to allow you to easily see and change Synergy’s state (see screen first shot below).

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If you want Synergy to be easier to use and install on OS X don’t get it from the Synergy website, get Synergy KM instead.

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The synergy home page allows you to download binaries for OS X but that package literally gives you just the executable file for the server and client and nothing more.

To find out more about installing synergy on non-OS X platforms orĪbout the practicalities of setting up a Synergy server checkout What makes Synergy even better is that it works cross-platform so you can share a single keyboard and mouse between Linux, OS X, any Unix and even crappy old Windows! If you have multiple machines on your desk and you are fed up of having a mess of keyboards and mice all over the place then Synergy is just the thing you need.

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