The question is: How hard would it be to port AND who wants to do it? Is it even open source? (/me knows nothing about it) Is it peer to peer or do we need a client & server?
The question is: How hard would it be to port AND who wants to do it? Is it even open source? (/me knows nothing about it) Is it peer to peer or do we need a client & server?
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It is open source, although has been succeeded by Input Leap now.
@vagappc yes, it is - I am back to using it now as I have finally got the space to have two monitors set up. So I have Barrier on my Mac and Synergy client on the X5000. There is more than one synergy client and only one worked for me. I will boot the machine up in a bit and edit my response with which on it is that works.
There was mention somewhere (I forget where) of a new fork from Barrier called Input Leap. For now at least, stick with Barrier v2.4.0 as Input Leap says it's not compatible with Synergy. I don't know if that means it's not compatible with the old Synergy that we use or the newer synergy that they moved to.
I've been using MkShare since a looong time now (now mainly between my X1000 and my Sam460), without almost any trouble (sometimes, after a copy&paste the pointer will refuse to go to the client screen and will stay stuck in beteween for a moment).
May I ask if it will ever be possible to have wheel support in the 68k version (I know it's an extra but it would be really useful for my 68k FPGA Replay)?
I've been using MkShare since a looong time now (now mainly between my X1000 and my Sam460), without almost any trouble (sometimes, after a copy&paste the pointer will refuse to go to the client screen and will stay stuck in beteween for a moment).
Glad you've been making good use of MKShare.
That annoying bug has been fixed for a while now, send me an email at andy@broad.ology.org.uk and I'll send the latest builds through to you.
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May I ask if it will ever be possible to have wheel support in the 68k version (I know it's an extra but it would be really useful for my 68k FPGA Replay)?
I guess I would need to map them to up and down keys or some such as there is no IECLASS_MOUSEWHELL, maybe if I get a moment.....
Sorry, I'm lost - what do you want a picture of? My desk with two monitors and a single keyboard / mouse? That seems somewhat pointless. Or some particular settings of one of the bits of software?
Admittedly I never went into the X5000 and worked out which Synergy client it was as I got distracted.
Confusion entirely caused by me, sorry! - Kas1e originally asked for the best way to remote desktop an Amiga machine, and yes, that would be like the screen share feature in Mac. For that you need things like VNC. I don't know the answers here as I don't do it. I believe I tried it, but it wasn't quick enough for me and I didn't like it.
I went a bit off topic and asked about sharing the keyboard / mouse between two systems which is something different really. That is where we have two physically unique monitors, presumably sat next to each other. One the Mac / Pc, the other the X5000 and just one keyboard and mouse. When you move your mouse from, say, the edge of the Mac screen onto the X5000 screen, the control seamlessly goes with it. This is more like continuity, when you have an iPad next to a laptop for example. For this we have MKShare client / server, or Barrier / Synergy client / server, and probably others too. IMO, this works well.
What's the performance like of VNC on other platforms? I've always found it to be rather sluggish. Are there any implementations out there that are fast enough that it's comfortable to use (as in no large latency or slow refreshes)?
IMO, no, they’re all sluggish. But maybe I have too high of an expectation!
That's been my experience too. Yet, remote desktop is big business, and Real VNC is sporting big corporate logos in their customers list, such as Philips, Intel, Dreamworks, Shell, NASA, and IBM. If the experience is as bad as we've experienced, then why would these companies pay to use it? It's a bit confusing...