I thought back to how much messing around it took to get everything to speak the same language and I decided to do a write-up for other PowerPC users. I've been using Synergy for a while now with a variety of machines and it is almost completely flawless. I know that Teleport is a very good solution for Mac (and notably easier to configure), but it doesn't have the scope of compatibility that I was looking for. So, I can copy on one machine and paste on another (even between operating systems). The real magic comes with being able to automatically share the clipboard contents. All those extra keyboards and mice are out of sight. No BT pairing/unpairing or USB plugging/unplugging. Also, after modifying the Mac Pro *, I now get a Bluetooth range of about 10m, which means I can just pick up the mouse and the little keyboard, wheel my chair to another machine at another desk and I'm on. Move the mouse past the edge of one screen and the next machine picks it up and takes input from the keyboard. But, if I want to, I can control any of the machines in my studio with just a single Apple wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse, which are both paired to a Mac Pro 3,1. I rarely have everything running all at once. Synergy is a long-standing open source solution for sharing your keyboard and mouse across multiple machines with a variety of operating systems.Ĭurrently, I have 3 Intel Macs, 8 PowerPC Macs, a Windows PC and some other obscure systems.
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