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I use Synergy to enable one keyboard/mouse to be used across multiple computers and platforms.

This seems to work well, but I am wondering about alternatives that have more features or make better use of operating system hooks.

Does anyone know of any worthwhile alternatives?

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This is really a question for SuperUser.com and in fact it has already been asked there! superuser.com/questions/102961/synergy-plus-alternative – Shog9♦ Jun 22 '11 at 21:02
What is Synergy? EDIT: cool app – productivityaddict Feb 25 '12 at 6:10

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Concerning available software, I checked my bookmark repository. Can't say anything about those, as I mostly didn't try them, as I haven't got a multi-monitor setup yet:

http://www.inputdirector.com/ - from the descriptions this seems to be the nearest to what you need! http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/ - seems to be one of the "market leaders" http://www.displayfusion.com/ - was buggy on my Win7 Pro x64 SP1 setup when I tried it. http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm - no idea http://www.maxivista.com/ - seems to be very basic

Otherwise you might just want to search through the articles on lifehacker.com ;)

Cheers,

Phil

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Of those only Input Director does the same thing as Synergy - the rest are for a single PC with multiple monitors, or in the case of MaxiVista for using a second PC as a second monitor, rather than controling another PC. – Dave James Miller Jun 22 '11 at 20:47
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Input Director is good, and I found it better than Synergy because it works with Windows Vista / Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC) - although I've just read the latest version of Synergy does that anyway.

It's only available for Windows though, so if you need cross-platform it won't help.

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