![]() Next, you can click on the icon on either computer and go to “Monitor Manager.” This let you set the arrangement of your monitors each of your monitors will display a letter on them, so that you can tell them apart. Share Mouse will automatically detect any other computer that is running the software, and you’ll see a notification alerting you of this.ģ. Upon completion, you’ll see the Share Mouse icon in your Windows Notification Area and/or Mac’s menu bar. Once downloaded, run and install Share Mouse on both of your computers. You can get the installation and program files, or get the portable editions that can be run from any USB flash drive.Ģ. ![]() In my case, I downloaded it on my Windows PC and on my Macbook Pro. You will need to download Share Mouse on both computers that you want to use. Whether you have Windows and Mac, Windows and Windows, or Mac and Mac computers, Share Mouse will really come in handy and boost productivity.ġ. What’s even better is that you can also share clipboards, meaning you can copy something on one computer and paste it to the other.Īlthough I don’t plan on using Share Mouse indefinitely, it’s a great temporary solution to my issue of wanting to use my Macbook Pro as a second monitor. That means I can go back and forth from my PC monitor to my Macbook Pro screen and vice versa, all while using the single mouse and keyboard (connected to my Windows PC). I’m sure other people it’s fine, but for me we controls up to 5 machines, change my setup quite often, it’s been more annoying than anything else at times, like today, where it decided to get CTRL locked on my secondary monitors, just because… try and do anything with CTRL activated :D… I’m a bug trigger, I know that, and the moment I’m done with my urgent work, I need to revert to synergy, even if that means I have to contend with a more iffy copy-paste mechanic, then again I haven’t used synergy in the last 2 years, it may have evolved since then.Share Mouse is a cool application that lets you share your mouse and keyboard with multiple networked computers. I need to switch back to Synergy Pro… sharemouse is driving me INSANE… sure I’m running the beta (atm but stable versions did too)and maybe that’s why, but man, it will do the weirdest things, and that cute monitor setup gets REALLY old when the app decides to randomly swap all monitors just for the fun of it, or after resuming from sleep… I’ve gotten a 5 year support licence from sharemouse, and for the money, the amount of grief it’s given me makes it a no recommend for me. I will be sure to look into it´s features and pricing. Thanks Kevin for the info on Across Center. Or can 1 pc act as a client to BOTH my pc and my wife´s pc? My true lack of understanding any of this will show now…Is it possible to have a pc act has a server of Sharemouse but also be a client for Sharemouse or Synergy? We have multiple pc´s in my house and I wanted both myself and wife to have dedicated pc´s with overlapping 2nd and 3rd pc´s. Not sure if Barrier allows drag/drop of folders. What about Barrier? Looks to be a fork of Synergy but with a tiny more development. Has anyone had any good/bad experience with Multiplicity? Seems like the only app that allows drag/drop/copying of not only files but folders as well. Is Multiplicity all hype? The reviews I have read and/or watched on Youtube has it edging out slightly higher than Sharemouse according to features, stability and ease of use. I am surprised that there has not been any mention of Multiplicity. Thanks too, for all the replies from many helpful techs and wanna be´s like me. Your information and followup has been exceptional. ![]() Thank you Duck for this wonderful overview of both Synergy and Sharemouse. My interest is to put the iMac in a corner and mainly ignore it unless I’m testing my web-site for compatibility in the various browsers on each machine, so other than logins, I’m hoping to control both computers from the PC. The iMac requires that a mouse be connected to it in order to fully boot-up and login, but neither Synergy nor Sharemouse would have started at this time, so how would this work if both the PC and iMac were just starting up? I saw that there is a switch key that is assigned to the keyboard that will switch between the two computers, presumably so the PC can take control of the iMac and then switch back to itself, if it is the master. ![]() I’m not using a wireless keyboard, so in both computers get their own keyboard inputs. The dongles are not addressable, so both computers simultaneously get the same inputs. My situation may be a little different because I’m interested in using a LogiTech TrackBall mouse device attached to a Windows 10 notebook computer with a Universal USB (UUSB) wireless dongle and an iMac, also using the UUSB dongle. I was looking at Sharemouse, and then found out about Synergy, buy haven’t tried/bought either, yet. ![]()
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