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Tamay Eser Uysal


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An easy way to manage multiple computers

Hi!

For now in my development setup I have 3 computers. One is my server(victor laptop, debian 9), one is my portable machine(x230, pop-os) and the other one is mac mini. I have one keyboard for mac mini and for other machines I needed to use their own keyboards. This could be very annoying sometimes. I knew there was a software which is synergy but this was very expensive for me but last day I saw barrier which is a free fork of synergy and I installed to my all machines after I read the source code . And now I can use my favorite keyboard which is the x230s own keyboard for controlling everything.

(This is the link of their repository. They dont have .deb file for now but they have .dmg file for macOS and for other systems they have guides(For GNU/Linux and for windows. In documentation there was a missing part which is when you finished installation what will you make. These are the steps I made:

*First you need to open barrier software on your computer which will be server.

*After that you need to open barrier software in other computer to looking computer name.

*In your server computer you need to click configure interactively and configure server and write your other computers name with drag and drop the monitor icon.

*In your server computer you need to click start.

*You need to click Client and unclick the auto config in your other computers.

*After that you need to write your ip which can be seen on the server computer to other computers.

*Then click the start on the other computers.

Yeah! Thats it.

Hope you enjoy. :)