Comments on: Bye Bye Synergy, Hello Input Director!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:49:39 +0000

mookiemu –

What setup are you using?

I had Synergy setup from XP (slave) to Ubuntu (master), but when I moved to Windows 7 (master) and Ubuntu (slave) I haven’t been able to get it to work.

I have tried Synergy, Synergy+, Qsynergy, both with computer names and IP addresses.

By: Setting up Synergy+ with Windows and Mac « Corrie Haffly

Setting up Synergy+ with Windows and Mac « Corrie Haffly — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:23:17 +0000

[...] found a post at Stefan Didak’s blog (of crazy computer/monitor setup fame) about how his Wacom wasn’t playing nice with Synergy [...]

By: Corrie

Corrie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:46:46 +0000

Stephen – I have the same problem with my Wacom tablet and no solution yet. Too bad Input Director doesn’t work with Macs.

By: Gurdeep

Gurdeep — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:47:14 +0000

What I liked about synergy was that I was able to work on my Redhat system transparently. Synergy is cross platform and works great if you have a mix of windows and linux systems. I have seen synergy hangup on Windows Vista but its a rare thing so its ok with me.

By: Milan Baloh

Milan Baloh — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:51:55 +0000

Used ID with a laptop as a slave. Everything worked just fine, with one (critical) exception.
My laptop has fingerprint reader which just stopped working. After I uninstalled ID, everything working well, again. Nothing reported in device manager or anything. Just a warning.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:07:40 +0000

I just began using Synergy KM on iMac as master and Synergy on Windows as slave. Mac mouse works fine, but when I connect Wacom tablet and mouse over to the PC it disappears, though items on the screen flicker and highlight. Not sure if anyone can give me a suggestion of other software or how to resolve this problem.

By: Good bye Synergy and HELLO Input Director

Good bye Synergy and HELLO Input Director — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:05:01 +0000

[...] that opportunity to rip out Synergy and install Input Director. I am going to link to a story Stefan Didak that will give you a very nice overview of Input [...]

By: john poker

john poker — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:03:11 +0000

Hi,

I just noticed that v1.2.2 has just been released with improved support for Windows 7 and more flexible monitor layout options. Might be worth checking out – http://www.inputdirector.com

John.

By: mookiemu

mookiemu — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:57:27 +0000

If you are looking for a cross platform updated version of Synergy, you might want to try Synergy+ . I haven’t had any problems using it with windows 7 and ubuntu. But I’ve only been using it a short time and my setup is nowhere near as complex as Stefan’s. However from what I see so far it’s very promising.

http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/

By: Dennis Klein

Dennis Klein — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:14:17 +0000

Ken,

I would highly recommend using SynergyKM on the Mac and the regular Synergy on the PC. I think that’s the very best solution crossing Windows and Mac OS X. Using “raw” Syngery on the Mac is not really fun.

Regarding the keyboard problem; there’s in my mind only one good option: Get yourself an Apple keyboard for a few bucks and use it on both systems. Funny enough, but using the Apple keyboard on the Windows machine is by far not as bad as vice versa.

Good luck and I hope this helps

Ciao
Dennis

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:59:19 +0000

I have developed on Windows for some time, and am now trying my hand at iPhone development. For this I had to purchase a Mac Mini (developer tools don’t work on Windows, and OS/X doesn’t virtualize well).

I tried using Synergy, as my KVM won’t work (the Mac Mini has only USB keyboard and mouse; the KVM is older and is just the PS/2-style plug), so after some searching found it.

However, one significant drawback (and is also a drawback of VNC, with which I tried connecting to the Mac from the XP machine) is that one cannot Control+Drag! This is a required gesture for XCode development (to connect items to each other, in the visual development portion — I’m not positive whether I’ll really need that, or whether I will be able to achieve the same linkage with a different manner — but as I’m just getting started and trying to follow along with the video tutorials, I am unable to do what they demonstrate, unless I switch to that keyboard and mouse).

Do you know of any other software that is cross-platform and will work on both Windows and Mac machines? (”You” being Stefan as well as the readers.)

Thanks,
Ken

By: TX

TX — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:43:50 +0000

Looks cool and all, but Windows-only kills it for me. However, there’s actually further development of Synergy going on at http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/

It really is too bad Input Director isn’t available on anything but Windows, though. It looks very, very good.

By: Audun

Audun — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:46:15 +0000

Input Director seemes like a very nice piece of software, but unfortunately it’s missing one of the key components of Synergy; it only works with Windows. So for me it’s not an option, no matter what other features it has.

But I sure would like to have a cross-plattform-client with the features Input Director offers.

By: Dennis Klein

Dennis Klein — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:14:02 +0000

It looks very good, unfortunately, the only situation when I really need it is connection the companies notebook with the private PC (using one of my 3 22″ screens for this). But the FAQ highlights it clearly in FAQ A:2.10 – no chance if the VPN Client does not allow local connections to the LAN.

By: Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen

Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:36:54 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I’ve been using KaVoom KM. It has many of the features that Input Director has, but it’s not free. The only problem I have with it is that the shared clipboard is not very reliable on Vista and Windows 7, as it stops working every now and again. Is the shared clipboard on Input Director reliable?