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It would be awesome to have native V6 support in the Synergy app. For networks where the focus is to be v6-only or v6-preferred it's impossible to use Synergy without configuring IPv4 at the current moment. In Synergy 2 you could specify the full IP address of the remote computer but I found it didn't matter if I used hostnames with only a AAAA record or tried to configure the address manually, both with and without brackets around the address and wasn't able to yield any results. The synergy server would immediately crash and restart repeatedly with the v6 address configured. Additionall

Amazing news everyone! Synergy 3 RC1 is now available to download. Update: Synergy 3 RC2 is now available.

Hello, I just upgraded to Synergy 3 in hopes they fixed gestures on my second macbook. No luck :( It obviously works well on my main macbook but it would be nice if I could use my trackpad to do a 3-finger swipe up to show all apps on my second mac. Also, the option button on my mac bluetooth keyboard doesn't work either. I have to use the keyboard on my second mac to get it to work.

Synergy 3 RC2 is here! A few of the changes: Many fixes on all operating systems Skip empty screen with continue button Improved overall installation process Use readable names in generated config file More comprehensive reset procedure on macOS You can get RC2 on the download page.

It would be nice to use my laptop's keyboard as the primary while working on the laptop, but still use the mouse from the desktop computer. I'd like to propose more granularity in choosing which host is the primary for which device.

Just wanted to let you know the android and Samsung Dex would still be great additions. I realize this thread started over 5 years ago but both android & Samsung have continued to move into daily drivers for so many people. Even if it doesn't have the copy & paste features initially, just the ability to share the mouse and keyboard would be great!

not sure when wayland support is planned, but linux is moving pretty fast in that direction. Doesn't effect me at the moment, but I'm sure my next upgrade will see wayland on my computer either alone or alongside X. Either way X is clearly on its way out.

Barrier is not developed any further at the moment. People who contributed to it now are flocking around input-leap. Waynergy was more like a workaround until libei was in better shape, I am not sure if this will continue as a project, now that there's a more defined way to do this kind of thing on wayland. So, my money is on input-leap. I'm running it on Fedora 39 on wayland right now. It's not perfect, but at least it's working again.

Under the same Keyboard and Mouse section if you click on Hotkey configuration you can set a hotkey to Lock to screen. I haven't actually used that but I see that its available.

It's under Keyboard & Mouse...Enable lock to screen. Then press Scroll Lock to lock to screen.

Hi Tim, Thank you for contacting Synergy Support, I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing an issue with Synergy 3 on your set up. It appears that the Remote Desktop is keeping hold of the keyboard instead of the keyboard transitioning with the mouse cursor as expected, luckily there is an easy fix for this, could you navigate to the 'Miscellaneous' section in Synergy 3 and disable the option Take foreground window which should resolve this issue. Hope that helps and please let me know if there is anything else I can assist with? Thanks,FerasSynergy Support

I know it's an annoying thing to add sometimes but it's still a really useful thing, especially for those of us who dislike white backgrounds..

Hi, for Windows: I solved this problem by uninstalling Synergy. I also had to delete the Synergy folders in C:\ProgramData\Synergy, C:\User\***your user***\AppData\Roaming\Synergy and C:\Progam Files\Synergy. (first 2 are hidden folders) Somehow an older version saved the former IP Address in one of the config files. Nebst 127.0.0.1 there was also the old IP Address of my computer stored. (e.g.: locale.json in ProgramData\config\) After reboot and new install it worked. wbr

Yes, as soon as someone else writes the code for them, Symless will use it. 🤨

It worked on Mac too. You have to click Synergy in the Mac menu bar.

I use the default gnome desktop on Fedora, I don't know if KDE is working right now, sorry.

Same here this would be a game changer in terms of flexibility

I too tried ipv6, the server doesn't seem to bind to the ipv6 ip(s). I realize my use case is not very common but I have a network policy that when connected to a VPN, my local ipv4 traffic is being blocked leaving me with the option of using ipv6 or not being able to talk to local network.

@Nick Bolton Any updates from the Symless team? libei hit 1.1.0 about 2 months ago. KDE is about to roll into Wayland territory by default. At this point I'm happy to give Symless another $50 to get Wayland support, if it means I don't have to waste a day fumbling around getting input-leap built and blunt forcing it into my Debian setup.

Yup, same scenario. Laptop keyboard with desktop mouse. Otherwise, I've got to switch the mouse plug from the desktop computer to the laptop (and vice versa) every time I dock (and remove) my laptop on the desk.

Hi all, There never seems to be any actual answers to this without a ridiculously overcomplicated dump of log inputs or other stuff, and it seems like this should be something that has been asked enough to be simple to solve. What is required to be put in the config file to take advantage of the extra mouse buttons on the client machines? They work fine on the server machine, but not on the clients. My setup: Server - MacBookPro1-codename Client 1 - MacBookPro2-codename Client 2 - MacMini-codename Mouse - Razer Basilisk Reading through other websites and

OK, just purchased and installed Synergy 3 for first time, works fine between my iMac and Mac Mini M2, but......no gestures on the Mac Mini (second Mac). And no-one on this forum, or no-one knows the answer?

I don't know at what point this issue started exhibiting itself, but for the longest time I thought it was some combination of Little Snitch rules and the iCloud Private Relay. But I uninstalled Little Snitch and disabled the Private Relay feature, and this issue didn't go away. So I reinstalled Little Snitch and told it to block 172.0.0.0/8 addresses, and that resolved my issue. You see, I created a different thread about this a month ago, but my Windows 10 server has several virtual network adapters, and Synergy recognizes all of them, for some reason (but no IPv6...?). And while my mac

It's an issue with RC2, I reset Synergy on both, reinstalled RC1, rebooted both, configured them, and now I'm back up and running again. I might try and reproduce the issue with RC2 again this evening just to confirm I have the same problem come back.

RC2 is broken for me as well. Win11 server, Ubuntu 22.04 client. The connection is working but the mouse is "invisible" (actual pointer on Ubuntu doesn't move but I can see when my mouse is moving over buttons that highlight. Also, the keyboard isn't working. I've reset Synergy on both machines, no change.

Same for me. The only thing that does work for me is text from Mac to Windows.

Came here looking for a fix too, bummer that it's just a Windows thing I guess. New Synergy 3 still has the same issue, and I've got Win 11 host to Win 11 client where I can't type on the client in the picker. Synergy 3 does seem to resolve issues I had in the past with settings/UAC prompts that required elevated access that Synergy (no matter WHAT I did in settings) just couldn't access, so I was hoping it would fix this too, but this is like the last holdout. It's such a dumb thing to be annoyed by, but dang if it doesn't annoy the heck outta me every time. 😞

Same for me, but it seems to work if I paste it on the Mac first into some app that accepts it, e.g. Preview app and then paste into NextCloud Text, and then re-copy and paste it. That looks to me as if the Macos screenshot clipboard format is somewhat not compatible to the Windows clipboard image. Did you find any solution ? Synergy 3.0.72.1

Hi there, I'm using Synergy 3 Beta, v3.0.70.34-beta, and I don't know where to post ideas, so I hope i'm in the right place. And sorry for my bad english. Ideas: 1 - Profiles, with different screen positions, since some computers can be notebooks and may change position, or with my situation where the main computer changes (more on that later) 2 - Use keyboard/mouse from any of the configured computers 3 - Keep computers from sleep, when keyboard/mouse is in use So, explaining... Ideas 1 and 2: My main computer can change. I have two monitors, that I share be

How the hell do I make the new version use my keyboard shortcut to swap machines like the older version flawlessly does? Do I need to pay $30 to get back functionality the older version had? What a load of fucking horse shit this app is. Also the entire fucking design is garbage beyond belief. Shitty fucking devs.

Looks pretty nice, however, is there anyway to make it start in the background? Kinda annoying to have a big, white, unneeded window pop up every time I start any of my computers.

Or you can choose to update all from one.

2 - Why it's breaking the core concept? Synergy is about controlling other computers through a keyboard and mouse, right? Synergy 3 beta has the option to change the "server" (the one sharing its keyboard/mouse) with some clicks (open synergy, click continue, click on the three dots of the computer you want to "serve" and "Use this keyboard and mouse")... Well.. if this option is available manually, why not automatic? It's "just" (easy to say) a question of "which physical hardware is been used? ok, now this one is the server"... no?

Yes! I've tried it!!! Very nice app!!! Thank you very much! There is one problem: If I try to change language with alt+shift at my Ubuntu (left display) when my mouse is at right display (Win), language is not changes.

There is no forum channel for Synergy beta 3 yet, so sorry for posting this here. I installed Synergy 3 beta on two machines, each running xubuntu 22.04. I enabled 'Allow Synergy to control this computer on the login screen' on both of them. Unfortunately, this does does not work. Even after logging in, there is no synergy process running until I launch the config GUI. It is annoying as I now have to switch keyboard and mouse between PCs at least once every day to login and start Synergy on each machine manually. I guess that the installation scripts will be fixed in a future be

I will try to make a video of the issue, kind of hard to explain honestly. I just cant wait to stop using x11... feels like i'm living in the past XD

I am using the flatpak for synergy 1 with my Steam Deck (which cannot use dep and rpm) and it works great. I would love to try the new Synergy 3 but there is not a flatpak or portable build for it. Either would be great but it seems flatpak would be easier since that is already in your pipeline.

I'm afraid this is going to be one of those unusual problems. Long time user of Synergy 1 Pro. I've been using it to control a rather "locked down" work laptop, and it's made my life infinitely easier. In all honesty, I was surprised it could connect with the latest work laptop, but it did. Many other apps simply aren't allowed, which brings me to my unusual problem. I'm using Event Ghost to trigger various macros from the host computer. It's capable of simulating key presses, so I'm trying to use some advanced features of Synergy as a workaround. Think of it this way: Event Ghost ca

Can Synergy keep the "other" screens awake? Like sometimes I'm working on one screen but may have a monitoring graph or document on another screen that I won't want to go to sleep, even though I'm not over there. But I'm happy for all monitors to go to sleep if I'm not around (similarly could they all wake when one wakes). is there way to sync "activity" across all machines? (I'm on windows 11 and pop_os, if it helps)

Came here from GitHub. I've been licensed user for years and want Wayland support. Please raise the priority on implementing this feature as I've been waiting for it since 2017.

Has anyone been able to get this to work on a MAC?

The original command was and it wasn't working. So I opened taskman and found Synergy daemon and process. Opened the file location and saw that the names were different. So I ran and Because I don't know which is what on both client computers and it works fine. 3 computers with 10 monitors with all sleeping.

Nevermind, I fixed it myself. I'm running the client for my wife's computer inside a child process, capturing the stdout from synergyc and when her mouse enters the screen, I focus the window that synergy is running in (which sits off-screen so it's hidden). That's what it took to workaround this bug - simply having the window focused that synergyc.exe is running in will make the mouse cursor disappear when her mouse leaves the media computer. I noticed that, and then figured if I could capture the mouse entering and leaving, and auto-focus that window (using nircmd), it should work, and it di

This took quite a bit of troubleshooting, and it's a bit of a hack. These settings assume you're using a Windows system as the server, and the Mac system is the client. What this will do to map your keys: Windows key 'control' will be 'command' on the Mac client Windows key 'Windows' will be the 'option key' on the Mac client Windows key 'alt' will be the 'control' key on the Mac client On Windows: Stop the Synergy service running in the background. Go to C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME HERE\AppData\Local\Symless\Synergy Edit the synergy.conf file as follow

There's a bug on our download page where it sometimes shows Ubuntu users the Debian download. Please use this instead: https://symless.com/synergy/download/direct?platform=ubuntu&architecture=x64 Let me know if that doesn't work and we can try something else.

Is there a way to get synergy working on OpenBSD? I'm running desktop with OpenBSD and a laptop with Mint. I wanted to know if anybody had done this sort of thing.

Had exactly the same problem on all clients, so I did powercfg /REQUESTSOVERRIDE process synergy-core.exe display system from elevated command prompt on every client machine and it took care of it.

This was my problem, too. After much frustration, followed previous poster's advice: went to Task Manager [u]Services[/u] and started the Synergy service, which was stopped, for some reason. Problem solved!

Absolutely ! This would be my #1 priority for additional features It is so frustrating to have two computers sitting next to each other, and only one producing reasonable sound... Daniel

ah HAH! I found it. "[b]ipc connection error, connection refused[/b]" has started occurring for me when the Synergy [b]service[/b] is [b]stopped[/b]. Note that Windows has [b]processes[/b] and [b]services[/b]. Once Synergy is installed, a Synergy service is always running, regardless of whether or not you are currently using Synergy. - In the Task Manager, go to [b]Services[/b] - Find the [b]Synergy[/b] service - Right click, and select [b]Start[/b] I am not sure why this service stopped, but hopefully starting it will immediately restore functionality. Let me know if this work