Comments on: Quick Tip: Synergy on Windows 7

By: n00tz

n00tz — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:17:31 +0000

I was unable to get start on machine boot working. I’m hoping the team, or someone that forks the code, will release a new version that works a bit better with windows. I’ve since found ways to fit more than one keyboard on my desk, out of frustration.

Sorry I couldn’t be of further assistance.

By: Thomas S

Thomas S — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:08:07 +0000

Ok, so I’ve tried all of those things already, though I saw that the three different synergy applications (synergy.exe, synergyc.exe and synergys.exe being I’m assuming the client and server and the interface/gui) were there and I pre-emptively set the ‘run as admin’ setting for all 3 of those and the shortcut.

Did you ever find a solution that would allow synergy to start AND WORK when the machine starts up? I like you , found the start on machine start mode, which is the way I need to run, wasn’t working. synergyc.exe WAS getting started, as you noted, and running as ‘system’… AND the synergy server on the machine with the mouse and keyboard, was in fact connecting to that client (as per the server status)…. BUT no mouse messages or keyboard messages were being executed on the client machine. I’m assuming that this is the same problem you had.

So your solution may make the ‘start on login’ work.. but that requires one to manually log in with the laptop keyboard… which is the issue…. the laptop is in a docking station under one of the monitors and getting to the keyboard and touchpad is a PITA. I’m thinking it may be this whole ‘secure desktop’ related mess getting in the way… which also blocks the ability- even when Synergy is working, for the ctrl-alt-del message generated from the server side (via ctrl-alt-print or whatever it was) to generate that key sequence on the client Win7 box.

So any ideas on getting ‘start on machine startup’ to work?

A quirk I discovered was that whenever I had it running initially, if I then opened a tool on the win7 box that required elevated privileges, such as the ‘computer -> manage’ tool, once that tool popped up, the remote mouse/keyboard input was dead in the water and I’d have to open the laptop to close the application/tool and then get remote mouse control back. Setting the ‘run as admin’ settings on the exe’s seems to have fixed that.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:49:25 +0000

I think I’ve run into that problem too, Heather. The solution might be to make sure the mouse pointer is on the home screen when you leave your computer. What I mean by that is that your mouse pointer will need to be on the monitor of the computer in which the mouse is plugged into; the server.

If that doesn’t work, we probably need to wait on a new version of synergy to be released.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:45:23 +0000

I am using synergy with windows 7 Pro. I can not get my screensaver to work.

It seems to work only if synergy is turned off!

I do not know if this site will email me responses or if I have to look back!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:41:59 +0000

Thanks. This works! Made my day

By: Garrett Bartley

Garrett Bartley — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:30:57 +0000

Man, I miss that office. At one point, I did add a 5th monitor to the array running off a Linux box just to have Synergy running across all 3 operating systems. I even added a laptop to make it 6 screens total. I’ll have to check this out when/if I get Win7 at work with multiple computers.