I'm looking at going back to single monitor on my main linux box and using a Raspberry Pi to control the two side monitors running their own OS instances. I typically use the side monitors for light web browsing, monitoring stuff, and opening SSH consoles. I find some programs really don't work well in multi monitor setups and tend to open all over the place and even open dialogs where they don't belong etc... so I think this will help stop that issue by forcing everything on the one monitor considering there will only be the one. It will also allow me to take the video card out of the system and cut down on a couple hundred watts of power usage. I think the video card I have in there is better than the one in my gaming machine too so I can add it in there.
So basically I'm just looking for the best way to have it so I can move the mouse over to the other OS instance and control it with keyboard and mouse. The video will be directly connected. I used Synergy before and it worked ok, except anything semi graphically intensive would cause the cursor to lag a lot, even something simple like a javascript effect on the web.
I might end up just going back to Synergy as it worked ok other than that choppyness bug in certain websites/programs but I never spent much time trying to figure that one out. Just thought I'd check if there's other options I might not know about.
So basically I'm just looking for the best way to have it so I can move the mouse over to the other OS instance and control it with keyboard and mouse. The video will be directly connected. I used Synergy before and it worked ok, except anything semi graphically intensive would cause the cursor to lag a lot, even something simple like a javascript effect on the web.
I might end up just going back to Synergy as it worked ok other than that choppyness bug in certain websites/programs but I never spent much time trying to figure that one out. Just thought I'd check if there's other options I might not know about.