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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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| 7 | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="synergy.css" media="screen" />
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| 8 | <title>Synergy</title>
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| 10 | <body class="main">
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| 11 | <p>
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| 12 | </p><h4>Introduction</h4><p>
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| 13 | synergy: [noun] a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct elements
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| 14 | </p><p>
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| 15 | Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between
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| 16 | multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its
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| 17 | own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users
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| 18 | with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its
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| 19 | own monitor(s).
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| 20 | </p><p>
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| 21 | Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse
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| 22 | off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of
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| 23 | all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems.
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| 24 | Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop
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| 25 | together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires
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| 26 | a password to unlock them all. <a href="about.html">Learn more</a>
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| 27 | about how it works.
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| 28 | </p><p>
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| 29 | Synergy is open source and released under the
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| 30 | <a href="license.html#GPL">GNU Public License (GPL)</a>.
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| 31 | </p><p>
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| 32 | </p><h4>System Requirements</h4><p>
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| 33 | </p><p>
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| 34 | <ul>
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| 35 | <li>Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (the Windows 95 family)
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| 36 | <li>Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (the Windows NT family)
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| 37 | <li>Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
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| 38 | <li>Unix
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| 39 | <ul>
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| 40 | <li>X Windows version 11 revision 4 or up
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| 41 | <li>XTEST extension<br>
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| 42 | (use "<span class="code">xdpyinfo | grep XTEST</span>" to check for XTEST)
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| 43 | </ul>
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| 44 | </ul>
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| 45 | All systems must support TCP/IP networking.
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| 46 | </p><p>
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| 47 | "Unix" includes Linux, Solaris, Irix and other variants. Synergy has
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| 48 | only been extensively tested on Linux and may not work completely or
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| 49 | at all on other versions of Unix. Patches are welcome (including
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| 50 | patches that package binaries) at the
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| 51 | <a target="_top" href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=59275&atid=490469">patches page</a>.
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| 52 | </p><p>
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| 53 | The Mac OS X port is incomplete. It does not synchronize the screen saver,
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| 54 | only text clipboard data works (i.e. HTML and bitmap data do not work),
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| 55 | the cursor won't hide when not on the screen, and there may be problems
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| 56 | with mouse wheel acceleration. Other problems should be
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| 57 | <a target="_top" href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=59275&atid=490467">filed as bugs</a>.
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| 58 | </p>
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| 59 | </body>
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