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I have Synergy server on a Windows 7 box, and a Mac client connected to it. Most keys work fine, except for the Shift key on the right side. The left Shift key works just fine but not the one on the right side.

Does anybody have the same issue, and what is the resolution?

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Reset to default
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I can confirm that downgrading a windows 7 server to 1.3.4 fixes the problem. On the Windows 7 server I tried every server up through 1.4.2 beta and none of them fixed the problem. On OSX 10.6 client I tried everything up through the 1.4.2 beta and none of the newer versions solved the problem.

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I was struggling with the issue at work until my good friend Paul Udruscu pointed out that I can use KeyTweek on Windows, to remap the right shift key to the left one and alleviate the issue altogether.

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  • Good workaround, i'm using it with 1.4.6 Beta on all nodes
    – Haytham Elkhoja
    May 5, 2012 at 12:44
  • This worked perfectly for me as well. Saves me from having to downgrade to the 1.3.8 version of Synergy which is a significant downgrade.
    – BlueVoid
    Jul 9, 2012 at 17:29
  • The link to keytweek doesn't work anymore.
    – Animesh
    Dec 16, 2015 at 6:18
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This is logged in the synergy bug list here: http://synergy-foss.org/pm/issues/2842 so yes, lots of people have the same issue.

They don't seem to come closer to fixing this however.

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  • Still broken as of May 2012 :-/
    – Rob Osborne
    May 16, 2012 at 18:21
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Going off the workaround above by Ash, this can also be accomplished by adding a registry value to Keyboard Layout. It remaps the left shift key to the right shift key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
New binary value
Name: Scancode Map
Value: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 2a 00 36 00 00 00 00 00

Reference: modified this example; worked on Windows 7 with Synergy 1.4.8.

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  • This works great. Note that it requires a reboot after you make the registry key.
    – radicand
    Jun 29, 2012 at 15:48
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Are you running 1.3.6 by any chance? I just ran into the same problem between a Windows 7 server and Mac OS 10.6 client, exactly as you describe.

I installed the 1.3.7 nightly build (902 specifically) from http://synergy-foss.org/packages/ on both ends, and the problem appears to be fixed.

Edit: scratch that, the problem is back. Going to try a few more things...

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  • I downgraded my server back to 1.3.4 and that solved the problem. Client on Mac is fine as 1.3.6.
    – Haoest
    Feb 2, 2011 at 19:56
  • Yup, taking the server back to 1.3.4 fixed it. I tried going all the way forward to 1.5 nightly, but no dice. Thanks!
    – Lem
    Feb 2, 2011 at 20:07

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