{"id":399,"date":"2009-01-07T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2009-01-07T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:12:55","slug":"how-to-auto-start-synergy-correctly-on-macos-105-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2009-01-07\/how-to-auto-start-synergy-correctly-on-macos-105-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Auto-Start Synergy Correctly on MacOS 10.5 (Leopard)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Synergy<\/a> is a wonderful tool: it lets you run multiple computers on your desktop, but use a single keyboard\/mouse. The mouse cursor moves between screens seamlessly. Configured correctly, you even have a unified clipboard to enable copy\/paste between machines, even running different operating systems. I have two Linux desktops and a Mac laptop on my desk and Synergy is a life-saver.<\/p>\n

Configuring synergy and getting it to auto-launch correctly is not especially simple: the synergy autostart manual<\/a> lists three ways, none of which worked for me to get the clipboard working. But I found, hidden<\/a> in the Synergy bug database, a configuration script which solves the problem perfectly on MacOS 10.5 (Leopard):<\/p>\n

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  1. In a terminal, become root: sudo su -<\/tt>\n
  2. emacs \/Library\/LaunchAgents\/org.gnu.Synergy.plist<\/var><\/tt>\n
  3. I have synergy at \/builds\/synergy-1.3.1<\/var>. My mac client is named dupre<\/var>. My Linux server is named gabrieli<\/var>. Adjust these values accordingly:\n
    <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r\n<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC \"-\/\/Apple Computer\/\/DTD PLIST 1.0\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/DTDs\/PropertyList-1.0.dtd\">\r\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\r\n<dict>\r\n  <key>Label<\/key>\r\n  <string>org.gnu.Synergy<\/string>\r\n  <key>ProgramArguments<\/key>\r\n  <array>\r\n    <string>\/builds\/synergy-1.3.1\/synergyc<\/string>\r\n    <string>-n<\/string>\r\n    <string>dupre<\/string>\r\n    <string>-1<\/string>\r\n    <string>-f<\/string>\r\n    <string>gabrieli<\/string>\r\n  <\/array>\r\n  <key>KeepAlive<\/key>\r\n  <true \/>\r\n  <key>LimitLoadToSessionType<\/key>\r\n  <array>\r\n    <string>LoginWindow<\/string>\r\n    <string>Aqua<\/string>\r\n  <\/array>\r\n<\/dict>\r\n<\/plist><\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n
    Log out and log back in to get everything started. This will launch a synergy client for the initial login desktop. At login this client will be killed, and a new client will be started for the user’s desktop. Note: LaunchAgents are new in MacOS 10.5. This technique won’t work in earlier versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Synergy is a wonderful tool: it lets you run multiple computers on your desktop, but use a single keyboard\/mouse. The mouse cursor moves between screens seamlessly. Configured correctly, you even have a unified clipboard to enable copy\/paste between machines, even running different operating systems. I have two Linux desktops and a Mac laptop on my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[15,201],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-untagged","tag-macos","tag-synergy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}