squarebracket 1 Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 synergy-core keeps trying to open my X display as :0. Unfortunately, my X display is actually located on :1. I edited the systemd file to add DISPLAY=:1 to the environment, and that worked. But, I am wondering if there is some sort of unexposed config, like maybe in /var/lib/synergy/synergy-user.cfg ? Since editing the systemd file feels kind of.... icky. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Synergy Team Nick Bolton 407 Posted November 12, 2017 Synergy Team Share Posted November 12, 2017 On 10/11/2017 at 6:15 PM, squarebracket said: Since editing the systemd file feels kind of.... icky. Icky indeed! This is something we're working on in 2.1, so people don't need to edit configs to get it working. Link to post Share on other sites
squarebracket 1 Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 Alright, I'll keep my eyes open. Thanks for all your work! Link to post Share on other sites
jaap aarts 65 Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 IM NOT ALONE!!! I honestly thought I was the only person stupid enough to have a problem with this, sadly the AUR package + moderating this forum is about all the time I have after school so I didn't even check if there was a global config. if you don't want to change the global config you can manually run the synergy core using the command printed after sharing from your server. this won't auto switch etc but it works for a oneway config. Link to post Share on other sites
squarebracket 1 Posted November 14, 2017 Author Share Posted November 14, 2017 By "global config" are you talking about the systemd file? If there's a legit config file I can add it to, that would be great -- I don't want to deal with conflicting files when upgrading. Link to post Share on other sites
jaap aarts 65 Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, squarebracket said: By "global config" are you talking about the systemd file? If there's a legit config file I can add it to, that would be great -- I don't want to deal with conflicting files when upgrading. haha whoops, my mind is doing weird things lately, I type completely different things then what I want to type. Link to post Share on other sites
The_Vulpecula 8 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 On 11/10/2017 at 1:15 PM, squarebracket said: synergy-core keeps trying to open my X display as :0. Unfortunately, my X display is actually located on :1. I edited the systemd file to add DISPLAY=:1 to the environment, and that worked. But, I am wondering if there is some sort of unexposed config, like maybe in /var/lib/synergy/synergy-user.cfg ? Since editing the systemd file feels kind of.... icky. If anyone is wondering how to add DISPLAY=:1 to the environement, here is my file (/usr/lib/systemd/system/synergy.service) After=network.target [Service] Type=simple Restart=always RestartSec=0 SyslogLevel=err Environment=DISPLAY=:1 ExecStart=/usr/bin/synergy-service [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target And finally: sudo systemctl daemon-reload 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MadMe86 3 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 For the service file exist another possibility. My Display jumpes around on every start... i don't know why... maybe of my crazy monitor configuration ;-D After=network.target [Service] Type=simple Restart=always RestartSec=0 SyslogLevel=err PassEnvironment=DISPLAY ExecStart=/usr/bin/synergy-service [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Environmet=DISPLAY=:1 just set the Environment variable DISPLAY to :1 for the service and only for the service. It dosn't check if the DISPLAY is :0 or :1 or :2 PassEnvironmet=DISPLAY gives the real current DISPLAY variable to the service. ( Imho more neat) Greetings 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MadMe86 3 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 i told garbage in my last post PassEnvironmet=DISPLAY only gives the enviroment variable DISPLAY from systemd and this is not set. so it gives nothing... atm i don't know for what this command is usefull. Anoter way would be EnvironmetFile=/Path/to/self/created/file but i found another solution: You can add the service to your user systemd service manager... first you need to deactivate the old one. sudo systemctl disable synergy.service you need to create an service file in nano ~/.config/systemd/user/synergy.service here is my synergy.service [Unit] Description=Synergy Service After=network.target [Service] Type=simple Restart=always RestartSec=0 SyslogLevel=err ExecStart=/usr/bin/synergy-service [Install] WantedBy=default.target ### Important! not multi-user.target So it will start after you login. So it will work only for the Server. Greetings Fabian Link to post Share on other sites
CoconutRyo 0 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I have noticed that sometimes the systemd synergy.service file can be located in different places. In my case it was located at /lib/systemd/system/synergy.service Link to post Share on other sites
Jeremy.Wood 1 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Adding the display via environment in the service file worked on Fedora. Link to post Share on other sites
AndresC 0 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 I tried the display and the target solution but I cannot seem to get it working on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04. I paid for the SynergyPro, but I feel that I paid for nothing. Link to post Share on other sites
AndresC 0 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 36 minutes ago, AndresC said: I tried the display and the target solution but I cannot seem to get it working on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04. I paid for the SynergyPro, but I feel that I paid for nothing. I got it to work by using sudo systemctl disable synergy.service and then I had to reboot and then run cd /usr/lib sudo synergy-service Is there any way to run the program without having to do this manually? Link to post Share on other sites
MadMe86 3 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) On 1/18/2018 at 8:23 PM, MadMe86 said: i told garbage in my last post PassEnvironmet=DISPLAY only gives the enviroment variable DISPLAY from systemd and this is not set. so it gives nothing... atm i don't know for what this command is usefull. Anoter way would be EnvironmetFile=/Path/to/self/created/file but i found another solution: You can add the service to your user systemd service manager... first you need to deactivate the old one. sudo systemctl disable synergy.service you need to create an service file in nano ~/.config/systemd/user/synergy.service here is my synergy.service [Unit] Description=Synergy Service After=network.target [Service] Type=simple Restart=always RestartSec=0 SyslogLevel=err ExecStart=/usr/bin/synergy-service [Install] WantedBy=default.target ### Important! not multi-user.target So it will start after you login. So it will work only for the Server. Greetings Fabian I forgot to mention how to enable the user service: systemctl --user enable synergy.service @AndresC: if you are using Linux, than that should be a solution for you @Moderation: i can't edit my post (January 18.) could someone add the mentioned line? Greetings Fabian Edited February 7, 2018 by MadMe86 too fast Link to post Share on other sites
Hans van den Akker 1 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 So I have this with 2.0.10 (just bought it) and my Ubuntu 17.10 and Mac OS Sierra machines. I have 6 workspaces running on Ubuntu (master station). 1 till 6. WARNING: secondary screen unavailable: unable to open screen [ Core ] [2018-04-23T21:54:04] DEBUG: XOpenDisplay(":0.0") Will you enable multi workspaces? Link to post Share on other sites
MadMe86 3 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Hello Hans, i assume that you are using the Unity look like gnome... the workspaces that you mean are the virtual Desktops, where you can sort your Applications. Im Using Synergy without Problems with multiple workspaces. Try echo $DISPLAY it shuld be ":0" and then it should work. if it is someting like :1 then could the stuff in my last post do the trick for you... (if Linux is yout main OS) A little bit more of the log would be nice. Greetings MadMe Link to post Share on other sites
Hans van den Akker 1 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 No more log needed: This worked: (same suggestion as yours) https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR8Xinw7-K5MP1H9iPtXhtnq2h1SqGHw3-lpsVTtDE3gXHoOl504bYx-YC48SIRG6AJYKn0rCAJJq2b/pub#id.7djrgo3n1jhp 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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