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Legacy auto‐start
The official way is to use the Windows service feature in 1.4 which works with Windows Vista/7. This is now the default behavior upon installation. To have Synergy ''not'' start on boot, you need to edit the properties of the service and set it to Manual.
These instructions are not recommended for most people; instead, simply add the Synergy app to your startup items and enable auto-start in settings.
Here we create a shell script and a property list file (plist), and activate the plist using the launchctl command-line tool.
The shell script runs the synergyc Unix executable, telling it to connect to a laboratory workstation.
First make a little bash script or whatever to contain your synergy calls..
For example, I put mine in ~/.scripts/synergyscript.sh
Here's what my script looks like:
#!/bin/bash ## Synergy client, connecting to Lab workstation /Applications/Synergy.app/Contents/MacOS/synergyc -f -d FATAL -n Intrepid 192.168.1.102
Here I'm telling the synergy client I'm running to announce my machine's name is ''Intrepid'' and I'm getting to to connect to the ip ''192.168.1.102''.
I used this format so that I might later add additional separate instances of synergy, as this was on a laptop that moves around.
Then make sure you make your script executable:
chmod +x ~/.scripts/synergyscript.sh
''does it need to be made executable? we don't need that to run it manually. Does launchctl or the plist require it?''
Run the script manually to confirm it works:
~/.scripts/synergyscript.sh
If it works, you should see '''[please describe that here]'''. If it doesn't work, you might see '''[please describe]'''. In that case, try '''[please describe]'''.
I created my plist file under ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ca.dawning.scripts.osx.synergy.plist
It contains:
Label
ca.dawning.scripts.osx.synergy
Program
/Users/j/.scripts/synergyscript.sh
KeepAlive
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ca.dawning.scripts.osx.synergy.plist
To unload it, just swap that ''load'' above with ''unload''.
Using a Mac OS X 10.6.8 server with synergys 1.4.12 and a Windows 7 SP1 client with synergyc.exe 1.4.12
Create a config file ~/Library/Synergy/synergy.conf (or where ever) with the following contents:
section: screens
win:
alt = super
super = alt
halfDuplexCapsLock = false
halfDuplexNumLock = false
halfDuplexScrollLock = false
xtestIsXineramaUnaware = false
switchCorners = none +top-right +bottom-right
switchCornerSize = 0
osx:
halfDuplexCapsLock = false
halfDuplexNumLock = false
halfDuplexScrollLock = false
xtestIsXineramaUnaware = false
switchCorners = none
switchCornerSize = 0
end
section: aliases
end
section: links
win:
right = osx
osx:
left = win
end
section: options
relativeMouseMoves = false
screenSaverSync = true
win32KeepForeground = false
switchCorners = none +top-left +bottom-left
switchCornerSize = 32
end
Create a file ~/bin/initsynergy.command with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash
# Hides tray icon. set to 0 to have it show again.
defaults write /Applications/Synergy.app/Contents/Info LSUIElement 1
/Applications/Synergy.app/Contents/MacOS/synergys --enable-crypto --config ~/Library/Synergy/synergy.conf -n osx -l /var/log/synergy.log
Make sure you:
sudo touch /var/log/synergy.log
sudo chown YOUROSXUSERNAME /var/log/synergy.log
Add ~/bin/initsynergy.command to your account's Login Items in System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items
Start synergy client (synergyc) on Fedora 22 using LightDM
Apply all command as root, from a command line TTY (text console or remote SSH)
Install LightDM
dnf install lightdm systemctl stop gdm systemctl disable gdm killall -u gdm systemctl enable lightdm systemctl start lightdm
Create a start/stop script
vi /etc/lightdm/syneryc-start.sh
Link as a stop script#!/bin/sh
killall synergyc case $0 in stop) exit 0 ;; esac # exit now if called 'stop' synergyc -n
hostname -s-d INFO YOUR_SYNERGYS_SERVER_HOSTNAME exit 0
ln -s syneryc-start.sh /etc/lightdm/syneryc-stop.sh
Tell lightdm to call scripts
vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/synergy.conf
[SeatDefaults] greeter-setup-script=/etc/lightdm/syneryc-start.sh session-setup-script=/etc/lightdm/syneryc-stop.sh
Remove that last line if the user does not want to start his own synergyc daemon.
Originates from Bug #1755 -- This GDM method no longer works in Fedora 22 :-(
Howto start synergy client (synergyc) at boot on FC11 (Fedora Core 11)
This is not really a bug report - but just some hints how to successfuly install synergyc so that it start at boot in Fedora Core 11. Please integrate this in the main help.
/etc/gdm/Init/Default: # This script needs to start synergyc as user root - this synergyc runs on the # login screen. IMPORTANT: I've found that at boot time NAME LOOKUP does not # YET work so you MUST use the server's IP ADDRESS otherwise synergyc will # fail to connect and exit after a few seconds (--reconnect does not work): # so the BUG REPORT/enhancement request would be to make --reconnect work so # that it never/ever exits synergyc - even if name lookup does not work, or # if there is no display, etc.. As a (bad) alternative you can also use: # (sleep 10; /usr/bin/synergyc YOUR_SERVER_HOSTNAME) & # NOTE: I've also found that sometimes you need to kill synergyc with -9 /usr/bin/killall -9 synergyc sleep 1 /usr/bin/synergyc YOUR_SERVER_IP /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default: # this script needs to kill the root synergyc started by Init/Default /usr/bin/killall synergyc sleep 1 /etc/gdm/Xsession: # this script will start the user synergyc - the one that runs after you have logged in # Note: here you can also use your server's hostname, instead of the IP /usr/bin/killall synergyc # no need, I guess? sleep 1 /usr/bin/synergyc YOUR_SERVER_IP
I took a different approach - wrote a script to start/stop synergyc.
I changed my scripts as follows:
# end of file, before exit 0 /etc/gdm/Init/Default:# SYNERGY BEGIN /etc/gdm/Init/Default:# start synergy as root user (login screen) /etc/gdm/Init/Default:/usr/local/bin/synergyc-ctl.sh start /etc/gdm/Init/Default:# SYNERGY END # top of file, after comments # For at least CentOS 6.2, this needs to be in /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:# SYNERGY BEGIN /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:# stop root synergy (login screen) /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:/usr/local/bin/synergyc-ctl.sh stop /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:# SYNERGY END # top of file, after comments /etc/gdm/Xsession:# SYNERGY BEGIN /etc/gdm/Xsession:# start synergy as login user /etc/gdm/Xsession:/usr/local/bin/synergyc-ctl.sh start /etc/gdm/Xsession:# SYNERGY END
Here's also /usr/local/bin/synergyc-ctl.sh:
Here is an [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mark-vdb/scripts/master/synergy/synergy-ctl.sh updated version of this script] which includes support for setting crypto, display, logs, screenname.
#!/bin/sh
OP=${1}
# put the synergy server IP here (at boot time name lookup does not work
# and synergyc will fail and exit, using the IP prevents the problem)
SERVER_IP=192.168.1.10
SYNERGYC=/usr/bin/synergyc
PS=/bin/ps
GREP=/bin/grep
WC=/usr/bin/wc
PIDOF=/sbin/pidof
SLEEP=/bin/sleep
# check synergyc is running
function sc_check
{
N=`${PS} -ef | ${GREP} "${SYNERGYC}" | ${GREP} -v "${GREP}" | ${WC} -l`
return $N
}
# kill synergyc if running
function sc_kill
{
SIG=""
while true
do
sc_check
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
PIDS=`${PIDOF} "${SYNERGYC}"`
if [ ${PIDS} != "" ]
then
kill ${SIG} ${PIDS}
fi
else
break
fi
${SLEEP} 1
SIG="-9"
done
}
# start synergyc
function sc_start
{
while true
do
${SYNERGYC} "${SERVER_IP}"
${SLEEP} 2
sc_check
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
break
fi
done
}
case "${OP}" in
start)
sc_kill
sc_start
;;
stop)
sc_kill
;;
*)
echo "usage: synergyc-ctl [start|stop]"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
You can also simply put the command to start synergy as a daemon in ~/.xinitrc, though this won't give you the fine-grained control of a startup script.
synergys --daemon --restart --display :0 --address 10.137.10.163
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