Synergy

Google user: nick.bolton.uk

I also confirm this issue. Not 100%% sure if it's caused by Synergy+, as it was
working before upgrading from 3.1.1 (also not 100%% sure on that though).

Anyway, bug is accepted, but may be quite hard to debug and fix.

Google user: nick.bolton.uk

By the way, thanks for submitting a bug report!

Google user: nick.bolton.uk

I can recreate on:

Server: Win Vista
Client: Ubuntu 9.04

New Accepted

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Client monitor power save not working

Google user: nick.bolton.uk

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Google user: lorddarkstorm.com

The problem is only on the client for me. When the client is on an connected, they
will not go into power save mode. If I turn off synergy on the client, then power
save works as it is supposed to. I've seen this with vista server and win7 client,
and win7 server with win7 client. I have also tried this with two different
computers and both have the same issue with synergy running.

Google user: lorddarkstorm.com

I found the problem. If the option to synchronize screen savers is checked, then
power save never happens. Turn off the synchronize and the power save works again.

Google user: nick.bolton.uk

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Client monitor power save not working Windows monitor power save not working

Reproducible on Synergy+ 1.3.4.

Client: Windows 7 64-bit
Server: Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit

The server's display (Ubuntu) is able to turn off but the client's display (Win7) isn't.

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I still experience this on 1.36. The server's monitors will never enter powersave.

I have a few more details that I hope are useful, sorry my programming skills are not good enough to find the error in the code itself.

using v1.4.2 beta (32 bit) on all
Server: Win7 (64)
Clients: Win7 (64) and WinXP (32)

The screen saver will invoke on the server exactly one time. In the logs, I see this sequence on screen saver kicking in on the server:

watching screen saver desktop
onScreenSaver activated
send screen saver to "Express" on=1
send screen saver to "Pavlov" on=1

on screen saver exiting on the server I see:
onScreenSaver deactivated
send screen saver to "Express" on=0
send screen saver to "Pavlov" on=0

it seems that CMSWindowsScreenSaver::unwatchProcess() is never being called (so, apparently, the system never realizes the screen saver is off, thus it will never try to invoke it again).

I can provide a more complete log if it would be useful.

Workaround for Windows 7
Tested on Windows 7 64 Bit
Should also work on 32 bit and maybe Vista?

From and Elevated Command Prompt type
For the Server
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE process synergys.exe system display awaymode
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE service "Synergy Server" system display awaymode

Confirm with powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE
Should come back with
[SERVICE]
Synergy Server DISPLAY SYSTEM AWAYMODE

[PROCESS]
synergys.exe DISPLAY SYSTEM AWAYMODE

[DRIVER]

For the Client
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE process synergyc.exe system display awaymode
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE service "Synergy Client" system display awaymode

Confirm with powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE
Should come back with
[SERVICE]
Synergy Client DISPLAY SYSTEM AWAYMODE

[PROCESS]
synergyc.exe DISPLAY SYSTEM AWAYMODE

[DRIVER]

Possible to add this to the installer to do it automatically?

Mike.

Thanks, Mike!
I can confirm that a Windows 7 server will blank the screen properly.
Mike's workaround for a Windows 7 client works like a charm!
I've been manually putting my client machine to sleep for almost a year (since I built up a Fedora server which I leave on 24-7).
Now my desk is almost clutter free thanks to the great work being done on Synergy - Thank you sooo much!
The only hiccup left is getting the Security Protocol settings on Home Premium so that UAC elevation dialogs are able to see the button clicks. Then I'll be able to put the client's mouse in a drawer, off my desk!

Thanks, again, everyone!

1.4.11

Unfortunately, REQUESTOVERRIDE is not an available parameter of powercfg under Vista32.