Roaming with my mouse and keyboard

I have a mac mini hooked up to my TV in the living room, and a Mac Pro dev machine in my office .. just bought myself the wireless keyboard and mighty mouse ..
shouldn't I be able to roam between the two rooms without having to go through the re-pairing process each time??

I just switched to mac, so I use my old desktopPC at home, and my macbook pro at work, which travels with me. I recently purchased a belkin KVM switch, whose purpose is to allow 2 different computers (my laptop and desktopPC) to use the same set of peripherals (Keyboard, Video monitor & Mouse). That way, theoretically, I just need to plug in the laptop, press a button, and voila! I can switch between my 2 computers.... Since both my mac and DesktopPC has bluetooth capability, I purchased an Apple bluetooth wireless keyboard, thinking I could pair the keyboard to both computers. WRONG!! I quickly found that I could only pair the bluetooth keyboard to one computer at a time, and if I switched computers using the KVM switch (similar to your roaming between your living rm. & office), I need to each time re-pair the bluetooth keyboard to the appropriate computer that I am using... An inconvenience. I wonder if there is a device that would act as a router or switcher of sorts,that would "remember" the keycode, to allow one bluetooth pair ID keycode for multiple computers... Anyone got any ideas?

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fpscsladel,
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Sorry for not replying, but I didn't have access to my laptop by this time.
On grub I have only normal mode and 'fallback' mode, so I have result from 'journalctl' from normal mode.
I'm sending the fragment of this file where you can see everything after I typed 'startxfce4' in console:
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