![]() Now that I wrote this out and tried to look for the software I used to do this a few years ago, it’s looking like they might not be available now. The way Teleport worked was if you have Mac A and Mac B with their own screens, and you pushed the mouse to the edge of Mac A’s screen, it would jump to Mac B’s screen and now you are controlling Mac B. ![]() What you want is software like Teleport, although Teleport itself seems to not be available any more either. To switch between the controlling Macs, again some of the uninformed will suggest VNC or Remote Desktop/Screen Sharing, but those won’t work as virtual KVMs. Even if you find a working current application that does this, you should know that it will be much slower than a second monitor connected using a normal video port. ScreenRecycler itself is no longer developed and probably no longer works with current Macs, so if your Mac laptops are running newer macOS, you will want to find a current ScreenRecycler alternative: An application that lets a second Mac be an extended desktop, but through a network connection. ScreenRecycler allows you to use any networked computer as additional display. You want to use something like ScreenRecycler. Some will say “Oh, like VNC/Remote Desktop” but no, it isn’t like that because those mirror, they do not extend the desktop. To let one Mac laptop be the display to the other, you can use a workaround that pushes video through the network connection, but appearing as a second monitor. They are a little Rube Goldberg, but they can work. Good news is that there are ways to accomplish it. There is no built-in way to do what you want, because no Mac laptop has the built-in ability to function as an external monitor (some iMacs have Target Display Mode, but no Mac laptops do).
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