If you are running several computers (desktop and/or laptop) and you are tired of switching keyboards and mice all the time the have a look at synergy. It is a software keyboard and mouser switcher and it also integrates the clipboard and the screensaver. You can move your mouse across all your monitors and it automatically switches computers for you.
I am using it with a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 5.10) and a Mac OS laptop. The main issue I run into was the fact the Ubuntu provides an older version (1.2.2) and this had problems with the Alt/Cmd key getting stuck on the laptop. Quite annoying. Installing the latest version fixed the problem, here are the necessary steps:
- download the rpm version
- convert to deb using alien
- install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (this solves the libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 runtime dependency)
- install the converted deb
$ sudo alien synergy-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm<br />$ sudo apt-get install libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3<br />$ sudo dpkg -i synergy_1.3.1-2_i386.deb
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