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.)