Comments on: How to configure Synergy in six steps

By: Paul Francis

Paul Francis — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:04:51 +0000

Matt is a PC and Windows 7 was Matt’s Idea…

By: Ess Kay

Ess Kay — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:34:00 +0000

Really nice tute .. and guess what, I had exactly the same setup .. Ubuntu on the right and XP on the left. I configured synergyplus (http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/) works great !!!

By: Josh Dale

Josh Dale — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:05:40 +0000

I’ve been looking for something similar to this setup but never really found any answers…thank you

By: Amaresh Das

Amaresh Das — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:47:52 +0000

Hi,

Really Interesting Blogs ,
After step for, i got this type message ,
can i except this as how to solve this ?

synergys -f –config /etc/synergy.conf
INFO: synergys.cpp,1042: Synergy server 1.3.1 on Linux 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 15:54:25 UTC 2009 i686
DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1051: opening configuration “/etc/synergy.conf”
DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1062: configuration read successfully
FATAL: synergys.cpp,655: unknown screen name `AmSi’

Thanks,
-Amaresh

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:35:20 +0000

Thanks, Matt. This is exactly what I was looking for. Had synergy working with Vista+XP, and needed to add Ubuntu into the mix. The steps you described worked perfectly. Thank you!

By: David Abernathy

David Abernathy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:59:43 +0000

I guess I should have taken Marc’s suggestion of hiring someone. Kicked around trying to get it to work for a couple hours. Time to put things back and perhaps try again some other time.

Looks like a great setup. For now they will have to just be seperate.

By: jody

jody — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:52:34 +0000

There is a wizard for setting up synergy
http://xhirl.donationcoders.com/main.php?page=synergywizard

By: mars

mars — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:19:12 +0000

Hi Matt:

I’m running Synergy using OSX Leopard as the server, XP as the client, and a single monitor controlled by a KVM switch. It seems to work fine except that when I switch to the XP screen (the client), the keyboard shares just fine but the mouse only works for about 5 seconds until the cursor freezes on the screen.

What’s funny though is that its scroll wheel still responds! just not the actual left-right-up-down movement. Any ideas?

By: seth

seth — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:29:16 +0000

I am trying to set a mac server with an xp client using apple’s computer-computer network. I have set the IP on both the mac and the PC manually and I’ve input them correctly into the config file and the PCsynergy client but whenever I try to connect on the PC it says it can’t find the server. Is there a reason that computer-computer networking wouldn’t work with this?

By: Jahn

Jahn — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:07:22 +0000

Thanks dude, awesome howto.

Got this working first try on Ubuntu 7.10 RC1

Im going to write an ‘idiot proof’ howto based on yours if you don’t mind.