unicode - Windows, Synergy, and EnableHexNumpad

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2014-07
  • Guest

    Windows 8.1, Synergy 1.5.1-r2307

    It seems Synergy does not support EnableHexNumpad in Windows, where much like traditional ALT-codes, any Unicode character can be inserted when holding alt, then pressing numpad-plus and a hexadecimal number. For example:

    ALT 3232: á
ALT +0CA0: ಠ

    However, with synergy running, EnableHexNumpad doesn't appear to work:

    ALT 3232: á
ALT +0CA0:

    Any ideas on how to fix?

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  • Sathya

    A few questions - what version of Synergy? I would strongly suggest you use 1.4.2 as it has a GUI for setting up the connections and it much easier.

    Have you checked your network - i.e. can the machine ping each other? Has your firewall been told to trust Synergy? Have you opened port 24800? (Not always required, depends on your firewall behaviour).

    You need one running as the Server, and that's the one where you should use the GUI to set things up ("XP is left of Win7" for example).

    On the other, simply run Synergy as a client and connect to the server. I am not sure what VGA has to do with it, both computers need to be able to display video so you can see what you are doing!

  • slhck

    Finally got things working! On the XP machine I had forgotten what the machine name was. Using IPs for both machines simply wouldn't work, hence: The correct machine names were needed.

    My next adventure is getting sound to play on the client. From what I've read here, it's not going to work.

    Synergy works for what I need.