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I have a windows 7 server and a Lion client. Everything works perfectly, I have the mac client set to startup on boot and on user login, no issues there. My problem comes when the screensaver starts on the mac client. If the screensaver comes up I can still move the mouse around but the screensaver never goes away and I have to reboot. I've tried the forcequit shortcut to kill the screensaver but nothing comes up. I can f11 to the workspace but cant get to my desktop. This only happens when the synergy client is connected. I can use either either keyboard or mouse (local or server) to move around and press f11. Any ideas? Anyone seen this before? |
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Press the Power Button of your Mac. (this workaround is also present in the bug report)
(04 Oct '12, 13:24)
dbernard
the bug has been known about since last july? and its still not fixed? having to press the power button to fix this issue is very poor. come on devs! sort it out!
(19 Apr, 10:44)
Jimmery
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What I do is run synergyc in INFO logging mode and have the shell monitor the output for the keyword 'entering'. When I move the mouse pointer over to the mac screen, synergy writes 'entering screen' to the logfile and within a second calls 1) Compile the Short c++ utility program from Yataka Tsutano to wake the mac screen via the command line. place binary in 2) start Synergy with /Applications/Synergy.app/Contents/MacOS/synergyc -f -d INFO -l /tmp/synergy_info.log -n myclient_hostname 192.168.1.100:24800 3) run shell script to monitor last line of /tmp/synergy_info.log while [ 1 ]; do test ! -z "`tail -1 /tmp/synergy_info.log | grep -i entering`" && ~/bin/osxp wake; sleep 1; done Thanks, this is exactly what I needed, wakes up the screen when my mouse enters, though I used a somewhat different method of utilizing the osxp, as the author mentions on the bug comment:
(23 Apr, 14:28)
bpedman
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I'm having the exact same problem. What I do as a workaround is I downloaded an app from the app store called Lock Me Now, which is free and allows to have a shortcut to lock the computer, so when this happens I have to lock the machine (synergy connection is lost) then connect my keyboard to the mac and login again. It is still a pain but at least you don't lose everything for rebooting |
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I have the same problem with a linux server and the mac client. What sometimes works is if I ssh into the mac from the linux host and kill the ScreenSaver process: Although lately this has not been working. In fact the Finder and most other running apps die and I have to reboot. |
I have the same issues as well. Similar setup except my Synergy server is XP SP3
Symptoms 1) Screensaver will not go away on mouse our keyboard entry. Mouse moves across screen on MAC Client. This happens after I turned off screen sleep because of symptom #2 below.
2) If screen goes to sleep the same thing happens... keyboard or mouse input over Synergy does not wake up system.
Work arounds I have found.
Symptom #1 I just put the machine in standby. No need to reboot. I then wake it back up. All works well till screensaver comes up.. Switching with KVM does not bring the MAC out of screensaver.
Symptom #2 If I switch over to the MAC with my attached KVM I can wake it up with a hit to my keyboard.
System Setup Windows XP SP3 Synergy Server OSX Lion on Mini Synergy Client
Same problem here, win 7 server and lion as client, so here is what i do, i hit the power button on my mac, wait until the power led starts to flash (the mac is in suspended state for now), hit the power button one more time and the login screen on mac will appear, input the password and the screensaver is gone.
varukimm, that is what I have to do to get it to come back.
It is cumbersome however with where my MAC is and that the power button is on the backside. Not really a solution though but does workaround to the issue.
also suffering from this problem