Synergy-core: Open source core of Synergy, the keyboard and mouse sharing tool

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Post by ingve » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:15 PM UTC

Synergy-core: Open source core of Synergy, the keyboard and mouse sharing tool
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Post by ktross » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:31 PM UTC

Synergy is great. I use it for sharing my mouse and keyboard between my Windows desktop and MacBook Pro. I had some latency issues on WiFi with Synergy 1.x, but that seems to be resolved with 2.x. Licenses are very cheap for their commercial offering and I would highly recommend supporting them!

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Post by shittyadmin » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

Synergy used to be great, the original developers really knew what they were doing, but since then it's been taken over by a commercial developer that seems to have no interest in making a good product and far more interest in charging money for it and licensing - more bugs are introduced with every release, clipboard support is half-broken on Linux for years, the Synergy 2.0 release now causes my mouse to continuously leave my screen while gaming even when locked and random restarts of the service and jumping back to the middle of the screen are far too common. I have to revert back to a very specific version to make Synergy work acceptably and I'm reliant on it for my daily workflow.

Worst part is I actually paid them money for it hoping they'd have fixed it by now...

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Post by 88768768 » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:36 PM UTC

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Post by treesloth » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

Used Synergy awhile back for development and testing and it worked really well. Glad to see it pop-up again brings back memories. Glad I don't "have" to use it at the moment though.

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Post by hateful » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

shittyadmin wrote: post #3

Synergy used to be great, the original developers really knew what they were doing, but since then it's been taken over by a commercial developer that seems to have no interest in making a good product and far more interest in charging money for it and licensing - more bugs are introduced with every release, clipboard support is half-broken on Linux for years, the Synergy 2.0 release now causes my mouse to continuous…

I had been using Synergy to control my work laptop from my home machine. I hadn't used it in a while (2+ years) and my computer would constantly run out of memory (I think it was in dwm.exe, if I remember correctly) and I would need to reboot. It wasn't until I read the Random ASCII article linked from here (https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/zombie-processe...) about zombie processes that I was able to track it down to Synergy and uninstall it.

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Post by russh » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

ktross wrote: post #2

Synergy is great. I use it for sharing my mouse and keyboard between my Windows desktop and MacBook Pro. I had some latency issues on WiFi with Synergy 1.x, but that seems to be resolved with 2.x. Licenses are very cheap for their commercial offering and I would highly recommend supporting them!

I've not had good luck with the 2.x releases. Random mouse moves, disconnects, jumping to the center of the screen, mouse not wanting to move between screens and odd clipboard issues. Life is too short, I went back to a KVM.

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Post by ionforce » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:48 PM UTC

shittyadmin wrote: post #3

Synergy used to be great, the original developers really knew what they were doing, but since then it's been taken over by a commercial developer that seems to have no interest in making a good product and far more interest in charging money for it and licensing - more bugs are introduced with every release, clipboard support is half-broken on Linux for years, the Synergy 2.0 release now causes my mouse to continuous…

> no interest in making a good product

This is a great, charitable interpretation of someone's work.

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Post by MrUnderhill » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:48 PM UTC

shittyadmin wrote: post #3

Synergy used to be great, the original developers really knew what they were doing, but since then it's been taken over by a commercial developer that seems to have no interest in making a good product and far more interest in charging money for it and licensing - more bugs are introduced with every release, clipboard support is half-broken on Linux for years, the Synergy 2.0 release now causes my mouse to continuous…

There was an open letter from the CEO just last week about re-staffing the team to be more engineering-oriented: https://symless.com/blog/open-letter-synergy-team

(Edited, thanks corpMaverick and stagger87)

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Post by chriswarbo » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

I tried synergy, with the hope that I could control a Linux media PC from both Linux and Windows machines. Unfortunately it was too flaky, e.g. control keys never being released (I think it's https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/9 ).

These days I use x2x over SSH. I don't use it on Windows, but then again I don't use Windows ;)

I have two system services which poll the surrounding WiFi networks: when I'm at home, I can control the media PC by moving off the left of my screen; when I'm at work, I can control a more powerful desktop by moving off the right (the latter goes through some multi-hop reverse SSH tunnels).