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Naftuli Kay
Asked: 2012-01-03 15:35:33 +0800 CST

How do I get synergy to work?

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I've never actually been able to get Synergy working, even when using QuickSynergy. Even using this guide gives me nothing; my mouse won't leave the edge of my screen. I've even disabled both computers' ufw firewalls to make sure ports aren't being blocked. What am I doing wrong?

work-macbook, host computer:

[Share]
Left=work-laptop

[Use]
Hostname=
ClientName=

[Settings]
SynergyPath=/usr/bin

work-laptop, slave computer:

[Use]
Hostname=work-macbook
ClientName=work-macbook

[Settings]
SynergyPath=/usr/bin

Pinging work-macbook from work-laptop works, and pinging work-laptop from work-macbook works. Things are basically working with host-names to IP addresses on my network, so that doesn't seem like the issue:

Pings:

work-macbook $ ping work-laptop
64 bytes from work-laptop (192.168.1.2)

work-laptop $ ping work-macbook
64 bytes from work-macbook (192.168.1.49)
synergy

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Have you tried setting up your config file on the host as shown in the synergy docs?

    Name the text file ".synergy.conf" in your host home folder.

    Something like this:

    section: screens
    work-macbook:
    work-laptop:
end

section: links
    work-macbook:
        left =      work-laptop
    work-laptop:
        right =     work-macbook
end

    Then run "synergys" on the host and I believe it's "synergyc -a [address]" on the client. You can run synergyc with the -f option to make it run in the foreground, that might tell you something about why it's not working.

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  2. To me, in Ubuntu, running synergyc [Server-IP-address] works.

    It invokes synergy client daemon with the argument of IP address of the server. When I get problem with synergy on my Ubuntu (client), I just kill the daemon and re-run by this command.

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