Synergy Is Neat

Recently, I have been playing around Synergy at my office desk. I have a powerful linux desktop that I rarely use because it is on a different network. I thought that if I was able to just fling my mouse up to that big monitor, I might get some more use out of it. The challenge here was the reverse ssh tunnel. With Synergy, remember that the keyboard and mouse are the server and the video is the client.

Here's a picture:

Here is my script:

synergys -f &
ssh -f -N -R 24800:localhost:24800 greg@host
ssh greg@host "synergyc localhost"

Here is my .synergy.conf. I don't have my keys working the way I like yet, but I was excited about this nonetheless.

section: screens
mac:
  halfDuplexCapsLock = true
  halfDuplexNumLock = true
  meta = super
greg-yellow:
end

section: links
mac:
  up = greg-yellow
greg-yellow:
  down = mac
end

section: aliases
mac:
  Greg-Hewetts-Work-Laptop.local
end