Synergy
Since I setting up my server, i was a little cramped for desk space with the extra monitor keyboard and mouse.
My usual solution to this would have been to install VNC and control the server remotely. This is okay to some extent but the screen often lags, and the LCD monitor didn’t take up that much space so I’ve decided to try Synergy, a nice little program that was mentioned on geekBrief.
Synergy is total free , easy to install and cross platform . Once installed the new machine acts a little to a second monitor, just moved you mouse of screen and it will appear on the other machine> The mouse is used to control the target of the keyboard too, ie, if the mouse is active on screen A the keystrokes go to machine A, on screen B the keystrokes go to machine B. Another nice feature is the cross screen clipboard, which gives you the ability to cut from one machine and paste on the other.
The only slight hiccup i had was when it came to shutting down. It would seem that Synergy shuts down first so, if you a prompted to save changes you have a little problem. For this reason I’m leaving a little mouse plugged in just in case of problems.
All in all a very nice little utility.