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13Jan/110

Share one monitor between 2 computers

Use source button if your monitor has 2 ports, usually both DVI and VGA ports.

DVI (White) and VGA (Blue) connections on the same LCD monitor

DVI (White) and VGA (Blue) connections on the same LCD monitor

It was so obvious that I only discovered it as a tip in this article - Share the same Keyboard and Mouse with Multiple Computers. Doh!
Extract -

[**] If you only want to share a monitor between two computers, you don’t even need a KVM switch. Just connect one computer to the monitor using a VGA cable and the other monitor using the DVI or HDMI cable. You can then switch between computer using a button on the monitor itself.

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