Re: Synergy and Gnome typing monitor?

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

skip pobox com wrote:
> At work I use Synegy with the Solaris Java Desktop System (essentially
> Gnome-something, maybe 2.6.1?) on a pair of machines.  Synergy works well,
> allowing me to type and mouse on either machines' displays using a single
> keyboard and mouse.  I recently enabled Gnome's typing monitor (version
> 2.6.1 - seems kind of old?).  Synergy doesn't pass the necessary events back
> and forth to allow both typing monitors to activate.  Consequently, when the
> typing monitor locks my screen it only locks my primary display (the one
> with the synergy server's keyboard and mouse).  The secondary display (the
> "client" in synergy's nomenclature) remains unlocked.
>
> Is this a known issue?  Is there a fix or workaround?  Is it maybe fixed in
> a later version?  I asked on the Synergy discussion forum on SourceForge but
> received no response.  I was hoping someone here could shed a little light
> on the topic.

Sorry, I don't know how synergy works. The typing monitor uses the X 
screensaver extension to detect "idleness", so as long as that part 
works, the typing monitor should work.

/Richard

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