Thread: Mouse without Borders

Posting this here so I don't lose it again.

In a nutshell, it allows you to reach across your PC's as if they were part of one single desktop. I have two PCs on my desk at work connected to 3 LCD screens and using Mouse Without Borders I can move my mouse between the 3 screens, even though one of them is attached to a different PC from the other two. What’s more, I can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another. In fact you can control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard with no extra hardware needed – it’s all software magic, developed by Truong Do who by day is a developed for Microsoft Dynamics.

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Seriously? There's a program called Synergy that has been doing all of this for about decade. OD has been using it since around the time the Half-Life 2 source code was leaked.

It's got a few +/-'s compared to Synergy. So yeah, an alternative. It's MS based too so I suspect it's got easier domain handling.

Synergy wont allow drag and drop across screens afaik. I'll give this a go. Thanks Jay.

Using a couple of older laptops atm for this. It's stupidly easy to get going. Took literally a minute.

Unlike Synergy...which is not hard to setup its just not intuitive.