Every company that I have worked for in recent years, RIM, AMZN, MSFT, alloted two machines to devs - a laptop and a desktop. People had different options on using a single mouse and keyboard to control both machines at all places. At MSFT, we would remote desktop to the desktop machine and control everything via the laptop peripherals. Folks at AMZN used Synergy as the configuration over there used to be a linux desktop and windows laptop.
Synergy lets you share your mouse and laptop between multiple computers (cross platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux). The setup instructions are here. The windows config UI is pretty cool. Choosing the desktop as the server has worked well for me in the past. Also, Synergy has evolved quite a lot in the last few years - a lot of the basic issues are gone. Also, the clipboard works flawlessly across the computers.
Matt Cutts also has good instructions to configure Synergy. Looks like Google devs use it too :-)
More people writing about configuring Synergy:
Synergy lets you share your mouse and laptop between multiple computers (cross platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux). The setup instructions are here. The windows config UI is pretty cool. Choosing the desktop as the server has worked well for me in the past. Also, Synergy has evolved quite a lot in the last few years - a lot of the basic issues are gone. Also, the clipboard works flawlessly across the computers.
Matt Cutts also has good instructions to configure Synergy. Looks like Google devs use it too :-)
More people writing about configuring Synergy:
- http://lifehacker.com/254648/how-to-control-multiple-computers-with-a-single-keyboard-and-mouse
- http://www.labnol.org/software/two-computers-one-keyboard-mouse/20134/
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