Conf Synergy

See other configs. More details are in the Synergy configuration guide.

In this example, ubuntu is the server which is positioned directly to the right of the client freedom. The mouse pointer on ubuntu will wrap the left edge of the screen onto the right edge of freedom, and from the right edge of freedom to the left edge of ubuntu with a small 50msec delay.

• synergy.conf – on the server side only
  • server(ubuntu)$ synergys -f –config synergy.conf
    • starts synergy server in the foreground (-f) to see all messages
  • client(freedom)$ synergyc -f server-host-name
    • starts the synergy client in the foreground (-f) to see all messages
• edit /etc/hosts so that screen names are resolvable hostnames
  • note: screen host names need to be defined for both server and clients

Resident only on the server, ubuntu in this case.

section: screens
  ubuntu:
  freedom:
end
section: aliases
  ubuntu:
    workpc
  freedom:
    laptop
end
section: links
  ubuntu:
   left   = freedom
  freedom:
   right  = ubuntu
end
section: options
  heartbeat = 5000
  switchDelay = 50
end

The /etc/hosts file on the server ubuntu would contain the following lines.

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost ubuntu workpc
192.168.0.100   freedom laptop

The /etc/hosts file on the client freedom would contain the following lines.

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost freedom laptop
192.168.0.101   ubuntu workpc