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| 5 | <meta name="keywords" content="Virtual Screen, Open Source, Software" />
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| 6 | <meta name="description" content="Mouse and Keyboard Sharing" />
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| 8 | <title>About Synergy</title>
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| 11 | <p>
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| 12 | With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual
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| 13 | screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of only one of the computers
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| 14 | while you use all of the monitors on all of the computers.
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| 15 | You tell synergy how many screens you have and their positions relative
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| 16 | to one another. Synergy then detects when the mouse moves off
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| 17 | the edge of a screen and jumps it instantly to the neighboring screen.
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| 18 | The keyboard works normally on each screen; input goes to whichever
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| 19 | screen has the cursor.
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| 21 | In this example, the user is moving the mouse from left to right.
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| 22 | When the cursor reaches the right edge of the left screen it jumps
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| 23 | instantly to the left edge of the right screen.
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| 24 | </p><p>
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| 25 | <center><img src="images/warp.gif"></center>
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| 26 | </p><p>
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| 27 | You can arrange screens side-by-side, above and below one another,
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| 28 | or any combination. You can even have a screen jump to the opposite
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| 29 | edge of itself. Synergy also understands multiple screens attached
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| 30 | to the same computer.
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| 31 | </p><p>
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| 32 | Running a game and don't want synergy to jump screens? No problem.
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| 33 | Just toggle Scroll Lock. Synergy keeps the cursor on the same screen
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| 34 | when Scroll Lock is on. (This can be configured to another hot key.)
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| 35 | </p><p>
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| 36 | Do you wish you could cut and paste between computers? Now you can!
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| 37 | Just copy text, HTML, or an image as you normally would on one screen
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| 38 | then switch to another screen and paste it. It's as if all your
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| 39 | computers shared a single clipboard (and separate primary selection for
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| 40 | you X11 users). It even converts newlines to each computer's native
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| 41 | form so cut and paste between different operating systems works
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| 42 | seamlessly. And it does it all in Unicode so any text can be copied.
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| 43 | </p><p>
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| 44 | </p><p>
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| 45 | Do you use a screen saver? With synergy all your screen savers act in
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| 46 | concert. When one starts they all start. When one stops they all
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| 47 | stop. And, if you require a password to unlock the screen, you'll
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| 48 | only have to enter a password on one screen.
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| 49 | </p><p>
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| 50 | If you regularly use multiple computers on one desk, give synergy a
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| 51 | try. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
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