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by dhoe 6211 days ago
Me too, except with Linux on one and Windows on the other. synergy works fine, although the fact that the last release seems to be from 2006 worries me a bit.
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I keep meaning to pick up the synergy source code and improve it a bit. Things I'd like to see:

* Make it peer to peer instead of client/server, keyboard & mouse events from all peers are shared, not just the server's

* Use mDNS (e.g. Bonjour) to auto-detect nearby peers and auto-connect to known ones. Also, use some kind of authentication - you don't want random people on a public wifi to be able to get access to your clipboard because you forgot to quit your synergy client.

Alas, I haven't had the time. Maybe this summer...

I'd be willing to sponsor this.
I'd love to shuffle around my project priorities in return for sponsorship. :) I've emailed you at m@..., my email address is in my HN profile in case it gets filtered or whatever.
> the fact that the last release seems to be from 2006 worries me a bit

Me too, but Synergy finally convinced me that it's possible to build amazingly good software that lasts.

that worried me too - but Im hooked :D the fact I can hook my mac, PC, dev machine and laptop (OSX,Vista,Fedora10,XP) to one KB/Mouse is so great!