Vendor Independent Find the best solution for your application! We're Here to Help! Chat Email. Product Selectors. KVM Switches. What is a KVM Switch? Serial - See All Articles. DisplayPort Another new market is for switches which support DisplayPort technology. Multi-Display A multi-display switch will allow for extended desktops across two or more displays.
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International Partners Partners for international orders outside of the US. Times are changing, however. You no longer need a dedicated KVM switch for your multi-system setup.
Here are three software KVMs you can use instead! A KVM switch is a hardware switch that allows you to control multiple computers from one keyboard, video display monitor , and mouse. Essentially, you can control two computers with a single mouse and keyboard, all through your regular monitor.
A KVM switch can save you a fortune in hardware costs if you have more than one computer at home. KVM switches are not just physical hardware. There are several handy virtual KVM applications that let you share your mouse and keyboard across computers. Better still, they're easy to set up!
Critical to the success of a virtual KVM is ease of use. The following software KVM programs represent the easiest way to share your mouse and keyboard without requiring a physical KVM switch. ShareMouse is the easiest of the three programs to set up and run.
Once installed, it shows up in the taskbar as an arrow icon. Hover over the icon to see how many other PCs on your local network are set up with ShareMouse and ready to use.
ShareMouse instantly detects my laptop and desktop. ShareMouse has some cool features. One I particularly like is the ability to dim the monitor you are not using. It is an excellent reminder for the screen your mouse is currently lurking on, but also helps preserve precious laptop battery life if you're not charging. Another excellent feature is the file drag and drop and shared clipboard between your computers.
ShareMouse definitely makes it easy to share files without using a USB flash drive or otherwise. You can use the Monitor Manager to tell ShareMouse where your monitors are in relation to one another.
The Monitor Manager is simple to use; just drag and drop your monitors into their correct position. ShareMouse displays the monitor letter on each screen as you move them, so you know which is which. First, the most convenient option is to get a docking station for your laptop and then connect the outputs of the docking station to one "bank" of the KVM, and then connect your desktop to the other "bank".
If you skip the docking station, then you'll have to connect and disconnect multiple cables every time you want to take the laptop somewhere or bring it back. And since dual display KVMs typically require displays that use the same type of output connector e. But as you'll see if you start shopping around, it isn't cheap.
And he also runs a USB 3. Hopefully this helps. If you need additional help, it would be useful to provide more details about the exact equipment you have, particularly the displays. The setup options change depending on the resolutions of the displays involved and the inputs they have available. Tiger Joe I forgot to mention that another important factor is the display outputs available from the desktop PC, which depend on the GPU installed. Thanks jphughan this is exciting and neat that your friend solved a similar situation.
Yes, I see where having the laptop dock station is the way to go to quickly unplug just like I did prior to working from home. Here is a picture of my Inspiron outputs from the back there is also two USBs on the front. I also include a picture of the HP Monitor. Tiger Joe Happy to help. If not, then unfortunately that's not going to be a good system to use with a dual display KVMs. Make sure it supports displays up to whatever resolution you'd need or might want for futureproofing , since different revisions of HDMI support different display resolutions.
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