Synergy to share mouse only (not keyboard)
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Synergy is very handy for single mouse/keyboard set sharing between multiple PCs. But I have a laptop (WinXP SP3) and a desktop (OS X Snow Leopard), a mouse, a keyboard which plugs to desktop. I don't need to share keyboard since each has one. Is there any way to share mouse only? Since if keyboard sharing enable might cause inconvenience. Thanks. PS. Another quick question is how to stop synergy daemon on Mac OS? synergys --help doesn't give any information.
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Answer:
I don't think this would work, because when you move the mouse cursor off the server the active window is defocused, so if you could type on the server's keyboard there would be no active window for the keypresses to go in to. Synergy does not disable the client keyboard, so when you have moved onto another PC you can still type on that PC's keyboard (as well as the server's.) The only thing you cannot do is type on the server's keyboard and have it appear on the server, when the mouse is on another screen.
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Other answers
(General site hint - please limit questions to only 1 question at a time) Regarding killing synergy, bring up the terminal and type sudo killall synergys. It will prompt you for your password. I suspect it isn't possible to share the mouse and not the keyboard.
David Oneill
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