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lvc

Member

Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 3

synergys - not working properly via rc.d

I am running a simple Synergy setup with two computers - my Arch box (tiamat) as the server, and a Windows 7 client (medusa).

/etc/synergy.conf:

section: screens
	medusa:
	tiamat:
end

section: links
	tiamat:
		up = medusa
	medusa:
		down = tiamat
end

This works as expected when I run synergs , or synergys -f , either as user or as root (~/.synergy.conf doesn't exist). Running "/etc/rc.d/synergs start" also works properly, although (as expected) interferes with rc.d's accounting. Running "rc.d start synergys" as root claims to work, but fails.

In particular: it gives no error, it rc.d list synergs tells me it is 'started', and ps -e shows that synergs is, indeed, running. The mouse can't move outside the server screen. This doesn't appear to be related to Synergy's "lock mouse/keyboard to one computer" feature, mentioned in Synergy's trouble shooting guide - pressing Scroll Lock doesn't resolve the problem.

What could be going on here?

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: synergys - not working properly via rc.d

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28364