This is a follow-on to my post “Home office goes multi-monitor with a twist“. I’m pretty happy with Synergy. One change I suggest (for sanity). I suggest either increasing the wait time that Synergy takes before switching to the next machine or enabling “bounce”.

I found, after a little use, that there were times when I’d move the mouse to the edge of my screen - either going to the top of the screen to get to a menu on a maximized window, or just pushing the mouse out of the way. In it’s default settings, Synergy would move the next computer. I first tried setting a delay of 500ms then 1000ms before the switch. Both did OK. Then I tried the “must hit the edge twice” (or what I called bounce). This worked well too and had the added advantage of letting me have multiple virtual desktops (the Compiz cube on Ubuntu, Spaces on OS X, etc.)

Related tangests ...   Making a multi-PC environment more productive   Quote of the day ...   Please oh please - give me a *good* virtual desktop for Windows !

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