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You can just use Synergy. It will turn off the display that the keyboard and mouse aren't on, so the monitor will hopefully auto-switch to the other input.

Failing that, most monitors have a serial command interface, so you can just tell the monitor to switch inputs when the keyboard and mouse move to the other display.

You're right though, there are no acceptable DisplayPort KVMs for less than $700.




> Failing that, most monitors have a serial command interface, so you can just tell the monitor to switch inputs when the keyboard and mouse move to the other display.

Really? I sincerely hope so because it would be a boon if they did, but I'm not sure they do (Dells for example), but I would love to be proven wrong! I would love to be able to switch monitor inputs using a programmable mechanism rather than (usually) clumsy OSD menus.


Is synergy smooth enough for gaming?


In my experience Synergy is a little wonky. It gets you about 90% of the way to what you want.

However, for gaming I would think it would be tough - I would think it would be easy to accidentally switch back to the other machine in the middle of the game.


You can hit scroll lock to lock the mouse to 1 screen. As long as you game on the synergy server machine there is no problems.


Just make sure your inputs are connected to the machine you do gaming on. If you do gaming on both, then this might not be an option.




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