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</p><h3>Tips and Tricks</h3><p>
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<li>
Be aware that not all keystrokes can be handled by synergy. In
particular, ctrl+alt+del is not handled. However, synergy can
convert ctrl+alt+pause into ctrl+alt+del on the client side.
(Synergy must be configured to autostart when the computer starts
on the client for this to work on the Windows NT family.) Some
non-standard keys may not work, especially "multimedia" buttons,
though several are correctly handled.
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<li>
A screen can be its own neighbor. That allows a screen to "wrap".
For example, if a configuration linked the left and right sides of
a screen to itself then moving off the left of the screen would put
the mouse at the right of the screen and vice versa.
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<li>
You cannot switch screens when the Scroll Lock is toggled on. Use
this to prevent unintentional switching. You can configure other
hot keys to do this instead; see
<a href="configuration.html#lockCursor">lockCursorToScreen</a>.
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<li>
Turn off mouse driven virtual desktop switching on X windows. It
will interfere with synergy. Use keyboard shortcuts instead.
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<li>
Synergy's screen saver synchronization works best with xscreensaver
under X windows. Synergy works better with xscreensaver if it is
using one of the screen saver extensions. Prior to xscreensaver 4.0
you can use <span class="code">-mit-extension</span>,
<span class="code">-sgi-extension</span>, or
<span class="code">-xidle-extension</span>
command line options to enable an extension (assuming your server has
the extension). Starting with 4.0 you must enable the corresponding
option in your <span class="code">.xscreensaver</span> file.
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<li>
Synergy automatically converts newlines in clipboard text (Unix
expects <span class="code">\n</span> to end each line while Windows
expects <span class="code">\r\n</span>).
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<li>
Clients can be started and stopped at any time. When a screen is
not connected, the mouse will jump over that screen as if the mouse
had moved all the way across it and jumped to the next screen.
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<li>
A client's keyboard and mouse are fully functional while synergy is
running. You can use them in case synergy locks up.
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<li>
Strong authentication and encryption is available by using SSH. See
the <a href="security.html">security guide</a> for more information.
Synergy does not otherwise provide secure communications and it should
not be used on or over untrusted networks.
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<li>
Synergy doesn't work if a 16-bit Windows application has the focus
on Windows 95/98/Me. This is due to limitations of Windows. One
commonly used 16-bit application is the command prompt
(<span class="code">command.exe</span>)
and this includes synergy's log window when running in test mode.
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