Keyboard sharing between 2 machines

From: Creature (ajp7_at_kent.ac.uk)
Date: 10/31/03

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    Hi everyone,

    Some of you might recall my semi-recent post about getting a dual monitor
    setup so I have X on one monitor and VT's on the other. General consensus
    was that it's not possible, and that 2 machines are the way to go. So, I
    should soon be getting a second machine, and a second monitor to go with
    it. But I haven't really got the desk space to accomodate another
    keyboard.
    So, the problem is this: Is there an application out there that sends
    keypresses to another machine? I envision something in X, so that when you
    double click it it sends the keystrokes over to the other machine, and
    clicking again release the focus and takes you back to the first machine.
    It's not quite ssh as I don't want it echoing back to the first machine -
    just sending the keypresses to the second one. A google turns up something
    called "Synergy" (synergy2.sf.net, IIRC) which is almost what I want to
    do, but it only does it with X. So any bright ideas?

    Thanks, 

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