Synergy locks up Windows 7 when Visual Studio is debugging

Question

I use Synergy (running as administrator) to go through two x64 Windows 7 machines (with all flavors of Visual studio from 2003 to 2010 professional) and an MacOS 10.6 desktop and most of the time it works flawlessly.

However, if I happen to be in the middle of a transition from one Windows 7 machine to the other (it's never happened to the Mac but I don't flip to it that often) when Visual Studio hits a breakpoint, the mouse and keyboard both completely lock up and the only way I can seem to do anything is to physically unplug the mouse and keyboard and plug them back in. Unfortunately I have to crawl under my desk to do that, so you can see where it'd be annoying.

Anybody have any idea how I can get around this?

I did note that it was much more frequent with the previous version I had of Synergy+ before I upgraded/sidegraded to the current version of Synergy. But it's still happening.

Answer 1

This happens to me all the time, too. The only work around I've found that doesn't require crawling under my desk is to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, select switch user, and log back in. This will move the mouse and keyboard focus back to the synergy server, but transitions to other screens won't work until you close the debugger.

Answer 2

Might be late to the party but if you run synergy as administrator you shouldn't have this problem.