Features: Move your mouse easily between computers Requires nothing other than existing ethernet Copy and paste between your computers No need to press any buttons (unlike KVM) You can still use multiple monitors on the same computer Lock the mouse to one screen Visit the official Synergy ...
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Synergy - Right click on windows with Apple keyboard
Using Synergy, I have a Mac set up as the server and a Windows PC set up as the client. When I move my mouse to the Windows machine, I cannot find a way to right click. I have the old white one-button ...
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synergy client connects to server but I can't get my mouse to switch screens
I have synergys on my Ubuntu computer. My Windows box connects to the synergys on the Ubuntu computer just fine. I tested this connection multiple times and I can see it in the command line as....
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How to change computer name in Ubuntu?
I've changed my computer name in these places:
/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
But when I try and connect Synergy with the new name, in the log it's still attempting to connect with the old name. I can ...
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Synergy server and client on single machine loop?
I have already seen:
Is it possible to set up a screen loop in synergy 1.4? - Super User
tunnel - How to run both a Synergy Client and a Synergy Server on the same machine? - Super User
... but ...
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ESET (Windows 7) firewall blocking Synergy
My firewall is getting in the way of Synergy. I have successfully set up Synergy (1.4) between two Windows 7 Pro computers -- it works perfectly if I disable my ESET firewall entirely. I've played ...
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Right click and click and drag not working in Photoshop
Right click and click and drag not working in Photoshop CS5 and only photoshop. Running windows 7 64bit.
Would synergy affect this?
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How to get Synergy working on Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit, however, Synergy
only works when a window (application or folder) is open and touching
the edge of the screen where the mouse should "jump".
In ...
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2answers
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Synergy taking longer than specified to switch screens
My setup is as follows.
Synergy Server 1.4.8 on Windows 7 x64
Synergy Client 1.4.8 on OSX 10.6
Server Setting: Switch after waiting 10ms
So, usually this stuff all works well. Also, moving from ...
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Command+Tab not working on MacOSX Client with Synergy
I have an Ubuntu 11.10 laptop paired with an Apple Wireless Keyboard. I'm using the answer on this question to swap the Command and Option keys so that they are mapped like a regular keyboard. This ...
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Using Synergy between two clients with different resolutions
I have two fedora systems (running synergy 1.3.7) each with two displays. The synergy server has two displays arranged horizontally and the client has two displays arranged vertically.
When I go ...
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Switch off the monitor when mouse reaches the edge of the screen
I have two computers at home (Windows XP and Windows 7), but one monitor for both of them. They are connected to this monitor using different interfaces: DVI and VGA.
I'm also using one keyboard ...
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Synergy server either dies after wake up from the hibernate or requires “force-reconnect” if still alive
I have a Synergy server on Win-7 x64, version 1.4.7 x64 (also tried 1.3.8 x64). Server runs fine, client from Ubuntu connects and works. But once the sever is hibernated and woke up, the connection is ...
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How can I get the Command, Option, and Control keys to work properly using QuickSynergy and two Mac OS X Lion machines?
I have two Macs, a MacBook Pro (server) and a Mac Mini (client). Is there a trick in getting the Command, Option, and Control key presses to get passed through to the client machine? It doesn't seem ...
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synergy client on windows 7 suddenly stopped showing mouse
After the initial setup hurdles I turned to v1.4.7 beta synergys Server on Ubuntu Linux 32bit 11.10
and synergyc client 1.4.7 Win7 32bit. It's been working pretty well (despite having a process ...
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Synergy Hotkeys: Funneling them to one box
I'm working with Synergy (GUI), and I'm trying to create volume keys that change the volume of one computer regardless of which screen is currently active. I have two screens, let's call them A and B. ...
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Synergy mouse/keyboard freezes on SUSE 11.1
I am running Synergy 1.3.1 client on a SUSE 11.1 machine and the server on a Win7 machine.
Every once in a while (~once every few minutes), the client-side mouse and keyboard will freeze for several ...
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Synergy server not recieving connections
Im using synergy with 2 windows computers (both win7 64bit), the servers debug messages state that it doesnt recieve any connections, the client connects to the server (right ip and port) and ...
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1.4.5 install seems to have creaetd root synergy client - how do I remove it?
I installed the MacOS 1.4.5 Synergy on my Mac, and now I've got a bit of a problem: as far as I can tell, root runs a synergy client on startup.
As a result, "root" appears to own Synergy's ...
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Win key replayed when focus changes from Windows to Ubuntu host
I'm running the synergy server (version 1.3.6) on an Ubuntu 11.10 host and the client (version 1.3.8) on a Windows 7 host.
Whenever I use the Win key on the windows client, they key is somehow ...
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156 views
Is it possible to set up a screen loop in synergy 1.4?
In synergy 1.3 i was able to set up my screens such that the following was true:
|-> [Windows machine] <-> [Mac machine] <-|
|-----------------------------------------|
Thereby making ...
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Unable to copy from Linux server to Mac client after 1.4.5 install
I installed version Synergy 1.4.5 on my Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) client, as part of a test to solve a much more complicated Synergy problem.
I now find:
* I can copy on the Mac and paste into Linux
* I can ...
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2answers
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Terminating/closing synergy
I managed to set synergy (ubuntu box as server and mac as client - it doesn't work the other way around). Currently I'm running:
synergys -f
synergyc -f SERVERNAME
on the ubuntu and mac ...
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Synergy.conf is not listen to
It seems that synergys is not really listening to my synergy.conf. Some changes have some effect, but appear to be random.
I have to computers Roel-Desktop and Roel-Laptop. When going from ...
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Why isn't my synergy KVM working properly?
I have installed synergy v1.4.5 on my laptop and desktop. Both computers are running Ubuntu 11.10. Although the logs indicate synergy is connected and able communicate over my LAN, moving the mouse ...
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Synergy: weirdness when moving the mouse from one desktop to the next
I have two desktop pc's, set up as follows:
Left: Ubuntu 11.10, 2 screens, vertically oriented. Synergy server (version 1.3.6, installed from the official repos), starts at login.
Right: Windows XP, ...
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Reversing scroll direction across Synergy connection
I am running synergys on an XFCE desktop, with the scroll direction reversed (to provide "natural" scrolling, as I prefer these days). I am running synergyc on a Mac laptop running Snow Leopard (as we ...
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Synergy Connection refused (Also telnet)
I recently switched distros to fedora (was looking for the most recent version of eclipse being supported, something I wasn't getting from Debian), and in trying to get synergy set up again, I've been ...
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synergy-foss using Windows 7 as Synergy Server and a Macbook Air (OS X Lion 10.7) as Client
my synergy config looks like following:
section: screens
mac-air:
halfDuplexCapsLock = false
halfDuplexNumLock = false
halfDuplexScrollLock = false
...
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Synergy: how to forward same keystroke to client and ALSO to server?
I've installed synergy on two different machines... now I need to type one key in the server in order to obtain an action both in server and client (i.e. left and right arrows to control two different ...
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Can two users both control a third machine simultaneously using Synergy?
I've been a Synergy user for some time now, as I use a PC on the left side of my Mac.
My girlfriend and I both have our desks on each side of the other, and we'd like to know if it were possible for ...
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QSynergy fails to share keyboard
I've been using Synergy (& various of it's incarnations) on a multitude of platforms for server years now, but something weird seems to be occurring.
QuickSynergy stopped working on Mac OS/X ...
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Spacebar not working (Ubuntu server / MAC client)
I am having the following problem.
When I press spacebar on the server, the client receives this sequence META+SHIFT+Z.
Thus, I can't input any space in the client.
Server is an Ubuntu 11.10, client ...
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Synergy 1.4.5: How do I get rid of the cursor (“Hourglass”-equivalent in Win7) in the middle of inactive client screens?
I'm having an annoying problem with Synergy 1.4.5 (the beta release): When I have a video player (Media Player Classic) active on my client (Win7 Pro x86), and I move my mouse to the server (Win7 Pro ...
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Synergy 1.4.5 Require hotkey to switch screen
I've moved today from synergy 1.3.8 to 1.4.5 because of issue #36, but I'm missing a feature, on version 1.3.8 I could set it up so that it would not switch screen unless Ctrl key was pressed. Using ...
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Issue with Mac and placing screen above main monitor with Synergy
I tried to find this in other questions but could not find anything so here it is:
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How do I disable the clipboard sharing feature in Synergy?
I don't want to share my clipboard between 3 computers I'm sharing with synergy. How do I disable that?
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Synergy stopped working after a week on Windows7, high CPU usage and no connection
Used synergy 1.3.1 & 1.3.4 since 2007 without a hitch. Upgraded to Windows 7, and synergy suddenly stopped connecting after a week. Now any version I try (1.3.1, 1.3.4, 1.3.8, 1.4.5) goes into ...
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QuickSynergy OSX server Linux client
How can I configure QuickSynergy so that my Mac can share it's keyboard and mouse with my linux computer?
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Synergy mouse/keyboard sharing in reverse?
I love synergy for two computers on a desk or similar situation. However, I have a desktop common pc that I use as a media center and was wondering if there was a way to accomplish the following ...
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Start Synergy in Crunchbang at Login Screen
I'm using Crunchbang Linux with Openbox and I would like to have Synergy (http://synergy-foss.org/) autostart at the login screen.
I tried following: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synergy ...
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Getting Windows 7 to be server and MacBook Pro Lion to be client
When using any version of Synergy on both my MacBook Pro that has Lion 64-bit installed and my Windows 7 64-bit machine, I can't get it to work.
I want Windows 7 to be the main host (the server) and ...
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1answer
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screen “xxx.xxx.x.xx” shape changed
I'm trying to setup synergy with Windows 7 (server, which is 192.168.1.51) and OpenSuse (client, which is 192.168.1.50). I've even tried a complete uninstall and reinstallation, but get the same error ...
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Synergy between Windows XP/7 and Linux Mint 12RC fails
Synergy icon shows the two computers are connected, but mouse is not shared. (linux server, windows client).
Anybody has a workaround ?
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Synergy: How to screen positioning configuration while it is running?
I am using Synergy between two Macbooks (10.6 & 10.7). Installed using Homebrew, version 1.3.6p2.
I will sit in various places in relation to the secondary laptop, so sometimes I want the other ...
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Synergy Between Windows Vista and 7 fails.
My Synergy line up is a Windows 7 Home Premium PC (wired to wireless router) to the left of my Windows Vista Home Premium HP Notebook (wireless to wireless router)
On my Vista notebook the client ...
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Is it possible to share mouse and keyboard over WAN?
At my office I'm using two computers, which is connected to two different LANs. I'm looking for an application to share the mouse and keyboard from one of the computers with the other one.
I know of ...
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2answers
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Synergy Mac OS X Lion => Windows 7 - modifier keys broken
When using Synergy 1.3.7 or 1.4.4 beta on Mac OS X Lion as server, and Windows 7 as client, I can move the mouse onto my Windows computer, but as soon as I press Ctrl, Shift, Command, or Option, the ...
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synergy refuses to switch when worskpace changes
Synergy works as expected when I stay on the 1st workspace. When I change to the next desktop (ctrl+alt+left), the mouse will not move from the current desktop.
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How do I cycle between my monitors in Synergy?
I have two computers (Windows XP) running Synergy and it works great!
However, I'd like to be able to circle around, as I have 4 monitors in a row. When getting to the last screen on the right, I'd ...
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Synergy reports connected but mouse doesn't hop between screens
I'm using synergy between two windows computers (Windows 7 32-bit, acting as the server part, and Windows XP 32-bit, as a client).
I'm running the server part as admin, as suggested in some posts ...
