I just set up Synergy so that I can use my WinXP laptop keyboard and mouse to slide over onto my multi-head setup at work and control those machines.
I was going to use x2x (which works under cygwin), but it seems to only see the right hand head. A bit of Googling turned up Synergy and, aside from a little bit of a learning curve, it works great.
The trick is to run the server process on the machine that has the physical keyboard and mouse, and run client processes on the machines that you want to incorporate into your virtual multi-monitor setup.
Wez Furlong in
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Really amazing. I wasn't thinking about using my PC and notebook that way until I read your post yesterday. It's awesome, especially the shared clipboard. And thanks for zour comment about where to run the server process; made it possible for me to get it up running within seconds :)
Wez,
Thanks for the reference to this app. It rocks!
Now if I could just find an app that would let me use the monitor on my other computer as a third monitor on my main box ;-)
Thanks again,
Dave