Answers: Synergy broken on Windows 8.1 after vacation

PythonNut

When I run synergy and move the cursor to a client, the cursor goes invisible and sticks to the bottom right corner of the screen (triggering windows peek). This renders all computers useless until the clients and servers are killed.

I get dropped bogus delta motion errors on the server and CALV/CNOP no-ops on the client.

I'm running the absolute latest windows 8.1Update with the latest updates. I'm also running the latest Synergy 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 Nightly (tried all permutations). This worked before I left for a week and now it's broken. I have no idea why.

cr0ck3t

Here's a work around which will allow you to avoid having to kill the clients and servers in order to make your computers useful again...

On the Server, click on the Configure Server button, and in the wizard that pops up:

Screens and Links tab: arrange your screens so that you can't move from one to the other using the mouse

add horizontal or vertical spaces
arrange screens diagonally

Hotkeys tab: set up Hotkeys to jump directly to each screen:

create new hotkey
select newly created hotkey
create new 'switchToScreen(screenName)' action

NOTE:

I would have posted photos, but need 10 reputation points and this is my first 'answer'/post so I currently have 1... the one you get for signing up, that is ;)... Anyway, I will edit this post when I am able to and add the photos...

Also, my Synergy installation started acting up right after I enabled 'dead corners' - did you make any similar changes in the Advanced Server Settings tab?

Good luck - and please post a solution here if you find out how to fix this before I do ;)

EDIT: have contacted Synergy and sent in log files... awaiting reply...

cr0ck3t

I moved my Server to my laptop (running Windows 7) and my client to my Desktop (running Windows 8.1) then plugged my keyboard and mouse into my laptop. It works for now - am awaiting a response from Synergy from the logs I sent in. Will keep everyone posted.

Synergy 1.3.6 on Windows 7 - test not working

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Joel Avery

I have the Synergy client running, which says it is perfectly connected to the server when I run a test.

I run the same test on the server and it just says "running test. press stop to end test". No output log file comes up like it does on the client.

If I then stop the test, it says Synergy is about to quit with errors and warnings. Please check the log then click OK.

However the log didn't open and I don't know how to access the log from the Command Prompt.

I'm pretty sure my configuration is correct:

section: links
    Joel-HP:
        left = JoelPC2
    JoelPC2:
        right = Joel-HP
end

My Windows 7 64-bit server is on the right, Windows 7 32-bit client on left. Both client and server are run as admin.

How can I resolve this?

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