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Synergy is open source, cross platform software used to manage multiple X11 clients with a single keyboard and mouse. It can be thought of as a KVM - but only supporting keyboard and mouse. Although the website says prompts support though purchasing "Basic" and "Pro" versions, the same functionality can be replicated through a little elbow grease.

As of April 5, 2020, Synergy does not support compositors running on the Wayland protocol.

There are currently two versions of Synergy being maintained: 1.x and 2.x. The 2.x branch appears to be still in beta.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for x11-misc/synergy Lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers

gui	Enable support for a graphical user interface
test	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)

Data provided by the Gentoo Package Database · Last update: 2022-04-17 19:17 More information about USE flags

Emerge

root #emerge --ask x11-misc/synergy

Configuration

Files

• /etc/synergy.conf - Global (system wide) configuration file.
• ~/.synergy - Local (per user) configuration directory.

Encryption

The Synergy wiki upstream provides details for enabling encryption between the client/server connection(s).

In short, copy the bundled encryption plugin to the Synergy user's home directory:

user $mkdir -p ~/.synergy/plugins

user $cp /usr/lib64/synergy/plugins/libns.so ~/.synergy/plugins

Next, generate the certificate:

Usage

There are a few executable files that are merged after the compilation:

• /usr/bin/syntool
• /usr/bin/synergyc
• /usr/bin/synergys
• /usr/bin/qsynergy

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean --verbose x11-misc/synergy

See also

• TigerVNC — a client/server software package allowing remote network access to graphical desktops.

External resources

• https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/wiki - Upstream's project wiki.
• https://brahma-dev.github.io/synergy-stable-builds/ - A third party site that hosts compiled binaries for Windows and OSX.