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The software is not as configurable but it is SO much more reliable and responsive. Basically a wired version of synergy.
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Not everybody. They let go "all staff whose role is not purely hands-on Software Engineering" I feel it is the right thing to do, so they can focus on improving the product.
Except it looks like Nick fired everyone except himself and one customer service person who is 'Rather excitingly, Sarah is also spending some of her time to improve her software engineering skills so she can help with developing Synergy' ( https://symless.com/blog/open-letter-synergy-team )? Seems like a really terrible plan, when you need to retrain CSRs to do your engineering.
It got so bad I had to unsub from their mailing lists.
I wrote my own replacement for synergy years ago. It's called touchstream[0] -- it's unlikely to be as full features as, but it's TONS lighter, and I've been using between my mac workstation and my linux workstation for a good many years without a single issue. Mileage may very, etc etc -- I implemented the features I needed! [0]: https://github.com/buserror/touchstream
I wrote my own replacement for synergy years ago. It's called touchstream[0] -- it's unlikely to be as full features as, but it's TONS lighter, and I've been using between my mac workstation and my linux workstation for a good many years without a single issue. Mileage may very, etc etc -- I implemented the features I needed! [0]: https://github.com/buserror/touchstream
This looks awesome and may get me to stop using Synergy altogether! One of my daily use machines at work is a very old laptop I'm basically using as a second screen via Lubuntu, and Synergy is the most resource-heavy program on it by far. It's also really glitchy, causing me to have to stop working and fix it several times a day.
Mine takes peanuts for resources, and I have uptimes of weeks or more on my machines. My current setup is a 'mac' with a 4K screen and a magic touchpad, and a bigass linux workstation alongside, with a 4K screen also. This one has no keyboard or mouse, and never had!
Feel free to ping me if you need any help, I know it doesn't handle all the scenarios, but with a bit of incentive I'd be very happy to work on it a bit more!
Right now It Works(TM) ;-)
Hi all, I'm the CEO of Symless, the company behind Synergy. I wanted to chime in and let everyone know that you can ask me anything (reply to this comment). I've been working on Synergy as the lead developer since 2006 (before I started the company). Synergy 2 is an early beta and is still under development (the final version will be quite different to what's you see now). All users have access to Synergy 1 ( https:/…
I know ChromeOS considers all programs to be hostile but how long does it take to get either a) Synergy ported to this new operating system or b) some explanation as to why there are no plans to create a ChromeOS version?
Even a phone version would be nice. It would enable people to type their texts rather than 'peck' at the keyboard.
The thing is that people find other workarounds and other products come along to make Synergy redundant. As an example there are the Logitech keyboards that will connect to three devices, e.g. one's phone, computer and laptop.
Over the years I have had genuine 'wow' from people who are truly amazed, as if it is magic when I move from computer to computer with the same keyboard/mouse. They wonder how it works and how it is connected. Few products are so impressive however the impression left on them is that you have to be a linux coder with terminal screens everywhere to use it. So there is no 'where do you get that' follow up question and therefore no mass adoption. It could be done.
Hi all, I'm the CEO of Symless, the company behind Synergy. I wanted to chime in and let everyone know that you can ask me anything (reply to this comment). I've been working on Synergy as the lead developer since 2006 (before I started the company). Synergy 2 is an early beta and is still under development (the final version will be quite different to what's you see now). All users have access to Synergy 1 ( https:/…
Looks like the download page requires me to log in. Why is that?
Hi all, I'm the CEO of Symless, the company behind Synergy. I wanted to chime in and let everyone know that you can ask me anything (reply to this comment). I've been working on Synergy as the lead developer since 2006 (before I started the company). Synergy 2 is an early beta and is still under development (the final version will be quite different to what's you see now). All users have access to Synergy 1 ( https:/…
Chromebooks. I know ChromeOS considers all programs to be hostile but how long does it take to get either a) Synergy ported to this new operating system or b) some explanation as to why there are no plans to create a ChromeOS version? Even a phone version would be nice. It would enable people to type their texts rather than 'peck' at the keyboard. The thing is that people find other workarounds and other products com…
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This looks awesome and may get me to stop using Synergy altogether! One of my daily use machines at work is a very old laptop I'm basically using as a second screen via Lubuntu, and Synergy is the most resource-heavy program on it by far. It's also really glitchy, causing me to have to stop working and fix it several times a day.
Ah, that's exactly the problem I had with synergy really. Randomly failing -- not terribly nice when one uses it for work. Mine takes peanuts for resources, and I have uptimes of weeks or more on my machines. My current setup is a 'mac' with a 4K screen and a magic touchpad, and a bigass linux workstation alongside, with a 4K screen also. This one has no keyboard or mouse, and never had! Feel free to ping me if you n…
That's exactly what I need, no more. :-)
I'm at home now, I think I may test it out on another very old laptop with Slackware. I may even dig my OpenBSD laptop out of the closet and see if I can compile it for that platform. My only Mac right now is a C2D mini with 10.6 so I hope it will compile and run there.
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So I just tried to compile on my Elementary OS workstation and got a few errors even after meeting all (I think) of the dependencies. I'm not a programmer beyond the occasional bash script, so I probably missed something somewhere. I have ruby, graphviz, and exuberant-ctags installed, and the usual basic build tools for a Debian based OS. Here's an example of an error, there were a few different ones with the same format:
src/ts_mux.c: In function ‘data_start’:
src/ts_mux.c:339:2: error: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
write(r->socket, msg, strlen(msg)+1);Used synergy for years but recently bought one of these guys which i didn't even know existed: https://www.startech.com/ca/Server-Management/KVM-Switches/2... The software is not as configurable but it is SO much more reliable and responsive. Basically a wired version of synergy.