Control Multiple MacBook Pro and iMacs with One Keyboard and Mouse

Summary

• teleport is absolutely free
• It is very easy to install and configure. Thank you Julien Robert!
• It allows to control multiple machine using one pair of keyboard and mourse
• You can drag and drop files from one machine to another. Beautiful!

Introduction

For those people like me who have at least one MacBook pro and iMac, thunderbolt display, it is desirable to use one keyboard and one mouse to control both machines. And to drag and drop files from one mac to another. Teleport is the solution! Teleport is developed at Abyssoft by Julien Robert. The current version is 1.1.3.

Download Teleport

The zip format file can be downloaded from http://www.abyssoft.com/software/. you can unzip the file teleport.zip by the following command on terminal:

unzip teleport.zip

After you unzip the file, a folder of teleport will be created with the following contents:

As you can see, there are 2 files underneath it. One is a pdf file with brief description on how install and configure the teleport and the other is a folder contain all the contents of the software.

Remember, you have download and configure the teleport on all the mac machines you want to control

The current version does not work out of box you have to perform the following procedures

• In Finder navigate to teleport folder
• Right or control click for context menu and "Show Contents"
• Navigate to "Resources" folder and copy "teleportd.app" to your desktop (don't move it just copy it)
• double click teleport.prePane
• check the "activate" box
• Go to Security & Privacy to Accessibility area
• Hit the plus at the bottom of the list and navigate to the desktop and add teleportd.app

After the configuration, you should see the following in your System Preferences panel:

Once you have perform this procedures on all of you machines, you should be able to control your machine with only one keyboard and one mouse. It seems the last activated machine will be the master. Now you can drag and drop files from one machine to another. It is really beautiful!

If you have 2 sets of keyboard and mouse, and you want to control each other, you can set the layout the same for both machine as shown in the following figure.