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teleport is a simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers.
It uses Bonjour to find available hosts. For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using TCP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.
It uses Bonjour to find available hosts. For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using TCP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.
What's New
Version 1.1.1:
- fix file transfers.
- fix crashes after changing options on a remote host.
- made the list of shared hosts scrollable again.
- other misc fixes.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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teleport is a simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers.
It uses Bonjour to find available hosts. For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using TCP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.
It uses Bonjour to find available hosts. For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using TCP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.
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Jude.farry reviewed on 08 Feb 2012
Btdpi007 reviewed on 01 Feb 2012
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Mikofox reviewed on 09 Nov 2011
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Sferic reviewed on 23 Sep 2011
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While the prefspane is properly installed on the Tiger machine, I am getting the very same error -- Preferences Error - Could not load teleport -- as other people when I click on the Teleport prefspane in the System Preferences app window. As such, I cannot even access the preferences for Teleport on the Tiger machine. Even though I don't have the firewall enabled on the Tiger machine, I went ahead and added the two required ports, and the box is checked.
I have no problem accessing the Teleport prefspane on the Lion machine. The problem just occurs on the Tiger machine. Even rebooting the G4 and reinstalling the Teleport prefspane does not help. The error still persists.
Any suggestions from the developer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! It seems like a very cool app, if it will just work.
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However, sadly, it appears that running 1.1 on my iMac with Lion, and 1.0.1 on my G4 mini-tower with Tiger, does not work. Even when I enable "Share This Mac" on both machines, neither Teleport prefspane shows the other machine in the configuration window.
Even if I just enable "Share This Mac" on the Tiger machine only so that it is the slave, my iMac still does not recognize it.
These two machines are on our LAN. All of our machines connect to a router with ethernet cables, and the router is in turn connected to our cable modem.
So, unless the developer can make this kind of a setup compatible -- 1.1 on one machine, and 1.0.1 on another machine -- I suppose I have reached a dead end. :(
Has anyone else managed to get 1.0.1 on an older machine to communicate with 1.1 on a newer machine?
Thanks!
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If I run 1.0.2 on my Lion machine and 1.0.1 on my Tiger machine, with my Tiger machine as the slave, while Teleport does work now, there is one major issue: using the shift key on my Lion key does not translate into the proper characters on my Tiger machine. In other words, it is as if the shift key does not even exist.
For example, if I do shift-2, instead of getting the "@" symbol on the Tiger machine, I still get a 2. This happens with every single key on the keyboard when I try to use the shift key on my Lion machine. As such, I can't produce any uppercase letters or special symbols on my Tiger machine when I use Teleport on my Lion machine. I haven't tried the option key or any other modifier keys.
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Radiorhaeem reviewed on 22 Sep 2011
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The trick is starting them both and then on the computer you want to share with your main computer you need to select "share this mac" from the menu bar, NOT within the preference pane. For some reason toggling the preference pane button doesn't make it work.
Awesome, seems to be completely working now!!!
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HarryG205 reviewed on 04 Jul 2011
Really helps when working on 2 machines though.
Thanks
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Jetfiredx reviewed on 03 Aug 2010
My one trouble spot: I have it configured to switch when holding CMD. Touching the top of the menu (crashing into the top of the screen as I am used to doing) and clicking the mouse button to use a menu seems to cause teleport to take focus from the window you were currently in. Example: If I select a file in the Finder and move the pointer to the top of the screen then click the Finder window becomes inactive. While the menus work you aren't able to do any file operations because the window no longer has focus. Very minor, but can be annoying.
Awesome software. Thank you for releasing it.
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Rickevertsz reviewed on 15 Apr 2010
I say again:
"Simply superb. Love being able to drag/drop files between machines. Much easier than navigating to source on destination machine. Copy/paste across machines is really useful too.
Sharing mouse/keyboard works seamlessly. Very configurable too."
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-> Sometimes, the mouse cursor stays visible on the controlling machine
Everything else is just ... perfect and very useful. TXS
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As soon as it start to log out I can no longer transfer the mouse back to the other comp.
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10.6.4 - New Wireless Keyboard
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My main machine is a MacBook Pro running 10.4.11
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Yoursort rated on 22 Jan 2012
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spacestation rated on 20 Nov 2011
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Jef4 rated on 07 Nov 2011
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Jef4 rated on 22 Sep 2011
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Badgerone rated on 22 Sep 2011
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Rains1026 rated on 02 Dec 2010