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| 6 | <meta name="description" content="Mouse and Keyboard Sharing" />
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| 8 | <title>Synergy Tips and Tricks</title>
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| 11 | <p>
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| 12 | </p><h3>Tips and Tricks</h3><p>
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| 13 | <ul>
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| 14 | <li>
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| 15 | Be aware that not all keystrokes can be handled by synergy. In
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| 16 | particular, ctrl+alt+del is not handled. However, synergy can
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| 17 | convert ctrl+alt+pause into ctrl+alt+del on the client side.
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| 18 | (Synergy must be configured to autostart when the computer starts
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| 19 | on the client for this to work on the Windows NT family.) Some
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| 20 | non-standard keys may not work, especially "multimedia" buttons,
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| 21 | though several are correctly handled.
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| 22 | </p><p>
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| 23 | <li>
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| 24 | A screen can be its own neighbor. That allows a screen to "wrap".
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| 25 | For example, if a configuration linked the left and right sides of
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| 26 | a screen to itself then moving off the left of the screen would put
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| 27 | the mouse at the right of the screen and vice versa.
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| 28 | </p><p>
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| 29 | <li>
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| 30 | You cannot switch screens when the Scroll Lock is toggled on. Use
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| 31 | this to prevent unintentional switching. You can configure other
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| 32 | hot keys to do this instead; see
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| 33 | <a href="configuration.html#lockCursor">lockCursorToScreen</a>.
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| 34 | </p><p>
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| 35 | <li>
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| 36 | Turn off mouse driven virtual desktop switching on X windows. It
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| 37 | will interfere with synergy. Use keyboard shortcuts instead.
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| 38 | </p><p>
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| 39 | <li>
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| 40 | Synergy's screen saver synchronization works best with xscreensaver
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| 41 | under X windows. Synergy works better with xscreensaver if it is
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| 42 | using one of the screen saver extensions. Prior to xscreensaver 4.0
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| 43 | you can use <span class="code">-mit-extension</span>,
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| 44 | <span class="code">-sgi-extension</span>, or
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| 45 | <span class="code">-xidle-extension</span>
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| 46 | command line options to enable an extension (assuming your server has
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| 47 | the extension). Starting with 4.0 you must enable the corresponding
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| 48 | option in your <span class="code">.xscreensaver</span> file.
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| 49 | </p><p>
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| 50 | <li>
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| 51 | Synergy automatically converts newlines in clipboard text (Unix
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| 52 | expects <span class="code">\n</span> to end each line while Windows
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| 53 | expects <span class="code">\r\n</span>).
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| 54 | </p><p>
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| 55 | <li>
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| 56 | Clients can be started and stopped at any time. When a screen is
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| 57 | not connected, the mouse will jump over that screen as if the mouse
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| 58 | had moved all the way across it and jumped to the next screen.
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| 59 | </p><p>
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| 60 | <li>
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| 61 | A client's keyboard and mouse are fully functional while synergy is
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| 62 | running. You can use them in case synergy locks up.
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| 63 | </p><p>
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| 64 | <li>
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| 65 | Strong authentication and encryption is available by using SSH. See
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| 66 | the <a href="security.html">security guide</a> for more information.
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| 67 | Synergy does not otherwise provide secure communications and it should
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| 68 | not be used on or over untrusted networks.
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| 69 | </p><p>
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| 70 | <li>
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| 71 | Synergy doesn't work if a 16-bit Windows application has the focus
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| 72 | on Windows 95/98/Me. This is due to limitations of Windows. One
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| 73 | commonly used 16-bit application is the command prompt
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| 74 | (<span class="code">command.exe</span>)
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| 75 | and this includes synergy's log window when running in test mode.
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| 76 | </p><p>
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| 77 | </ul>
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