Startup

Windows

Official way is to use the Windows service feature in 1.4 which works with Windows Vista/7.

Mac

You can use a plist through launchd. Click here for instructions.

There's also an example of this method in the source code.

Windows

Official way is to use the Windows service feature in 1.4 which works with Windows Vista/7.

Mac

You can use a plist through launchd. Detailed Instructions here.

There is also an example file in the source.

Linux

Originates from Bug #1755

Howto start synergy client (synergyc) at boot on FC11 (Fedora Core 11)

This is not really a bug report - but just some hints how to successfuly install synergyc so that it start at boot in Fedora Core 11. Please integrate this in the main help.

/etc/gdm/Init/Default:
# This script needs to start synergyc as user root - this synergyc runs on the
# login screen. IMPORTANT: I've found that at boot time NAME LOOKUP does not
# YET work so you MUST use the server's IP ADDRESS otherwise synergyc will
# fail to connect and exit after a few seconds (--reconnect does not work):
# so the BUG REPORT/enhancement request would be to make --reconnect work so
# that it never/ever exits synergyc - even if name lookup does not work, or
# if there is no display, etc.. As a (bad) alternative you can also use: 
# (sleep 10; /usr/bin/synergyc YOUR_SERVER_HOSTNAME) &
# NOTE: I've also found that sometimes you need to kill synergyc with -9
/usr/bin/killall -9 synergyc 
sleep 1 
/usr/bin/synergyc YOUR_SERVER_IP

/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:
# this script needs to kill the root synergyc started by Init/Default
/usr/bin/killall synergyc 
sleep 1 

/etc/gdm/Xsession:
# this script will start the user synergyc - the one that runs after you have logged in 
# Note: here you can also use your server's hostname, instead of the IP
/usr/bin/killall synergyc # no need, I guess?
sleep 1 
/usr/bin/synergyc YOUR_SERVER_IP

I took a different approach - wrote a script to start/stop synergyc.

I changed my scripts as follows:

# end of file, before exit 0
/etc/gdm/Init/Default:# SYNERGY BEGIN
/etc/gdm/Init/Default:# start synergy as root user (login screen)
/etc/gdm/Init/Default:/usr/local/bin/synergyc-ctl.sh start
/etc/gdm/Init/Default:# SYNERGY END

# top of file, after comments
# For at least CentOS 6.2, this needs to be in /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default
/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:# SYNERGY BEGIN
/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:# stop root synergy (login screen)
/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:/usr/local/bin/synergyc-ctl.sh stop
/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default:# SYNERGY END

# top of file, after comments
/etc/gdm/Xsession:# SYNERGY BEGIN
/etc/gdm/Xsession:# start synergy as login user
/etc/gdm/Xsession:/usr/local/bin/synergyc-ctl.sh start
/etc/gdm/Xsession:# SYNERGY END

Here's also /usr/local/bin/synergyc-ctl.sh:

#!/bin/sh
OP=${1}

# put the synergy server IP here (at boot time name lookup does not work
# and synergyc will fail and exit, using the IP prevents the problem)
SERVER_IP=192.168.1.10

SYNERGYC=/usr/bin/synergyc
PS=/bin/ps
GREP=/bin/grep
WC=/usr/bin/wc
PIDOF=/sbin/pidof
SLEEP=/bin/sleep

# check synergyc is running
function sc_check
{
  N=`${PS} -ef | ${GREP} "${SYNERGYC}"  | ${GREP} -v "${GREP}" | ${WC} -l`
  return $N
}

# kill synergyc if running
function sc_kill
{
  SIG=""
  while true
  do
    sc_check
    if [ $? -eq 1 ]
    then
      PIDS=`${PIDOF} "${SYNERGYC}"`
      if [ ${PIDS} != "" ]
      then
        kill ${SIG} ${PIDS}
      fi
    else
      break
    fi

    ${SLEEP} 1
    SIG="-9"
  done
}

# start synergyc
function sc_start
{
  while true
  do
    ${SYNERGYC} "${SERVER_IP}"

    ${SLEEP} 2

    sc_check
    if [ $? -eq 1 ]
    then
      break
    fi
  done
}

case "${OP}" in
  start)
    sc_kill
    sc_start
  ;;
  stop)
    sc_kill
  ;;
  *)
    echo "usage: synergyc-ctl [start|stop]"
    exit 1
  ;;
esac

exit 0