Re: Using a KVM switch to connect 3 computers at once

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:57:25 -0500, micky
<[email protected]> wrote:

>In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:37:16 -0500, micky
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:03:57 -0500, "David W.
>>Hodgins" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:22:22 -0500, micky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> And yet you read this ng. (Unless you're reading t he hardware ng?)
>>>> That's big of you.
>>>
>>>I'm subscribed to alt.comp.hardware. I'm not subscribed to any windows newsgroups.
>>>Windows XP was the last version of windows that I used. I prefer to control
>>>what's installed in my computer rather then some company that does what's best
>>>for them. I used to help people diagnose and fix malware infections. Got tired
>>>of seeing every version of windows be worse than the version before it.
>>>
>>>I dual booted windows and linux for a few months. Once I was comfortable with
>>>how linux works, I switched to it completely and deleted windows to free up
>>>the disk space.
>>>
>>>Regards, Dave Hodgins
>>
>>I'm glad I included the hardware group.  I looked at it and it seemed no
>>one had posted anything worthwhile in a long time, but I included it
>>anyhow. 
>
>Well, they are sneaky sons of a gun, it seems.  AFTER I paid,  they said
>"We're working hard to develop Synergy 3 into stable software. Please
>bear with us while we complete this phase of development. If you have
>any problems, then please either contact us for technical support or use
>Synergy 1 instead."
>
>And sure enough it didn't install on the laptop and didn't give any
>indication why.  When I tried the desktop, it said that Firefox had
>either to be closed or the PC rebooted later. It actually gave a list
>100 items long, all of them Firefox.  (I 10 windows of FF with well over
>100 tabs.) I closed Firefox and it installed, so I went back to the
>first computer and closed FF and it installed. 
>
>But then it wouldn't work.  The cursors were each trapped in their own
>monitor.   I fiddled for almost an hour, restarted the computers, read
>everything on their webpage,finally put in a request for help.  And
>then, though I had done nothing more, it started to work. 
>
>Right now it's working pretty well!!!  I think I like it.  Thanks again.
>Of course  there are many other ways to be unstable. ;-) 

Like any of the suggestions, it takes some getting used to. 

On the left hand computer, I can't just move the cursor all the way to
the right without looking and know I'll be in the vertical scroll bar.
Instead I'm in the right-hand computer. 

And I use AutoHotKey to reassign the Pause key to Sound Off/On, and the
/ and * keys to lower and raise volume.   Before having this, I could
just press Pause on the righthand keyboard and the sound would turn on
or off.  Now I have to move the cursor to that computer first. 

Most importantly AHKey still works on the righthand computer, win10 Pro,
but on the lefthand, Home, it stopped working when I installed Synergy.
I wonder why. 

I've rebooted and was going to reintall but I can't tell which of three
files I used to install.  I went to their webpage and they're now
emphasizing ver 2 instead of ver 1 but they said that scripts for 1
could be incompatible with version 2, so I have to read about that, dl 1
again or if there are sufficient improvements accomodate my short simple
script to version 2.  Maybe even if not mentioned, 2 won't be
succeptible to conflict with Synergy.   Always enough to keep busy!