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