Comments on: Autostarting the Synergy Server on Mac OS X using launchd

By: Synergy client & Mac OS X Leopard | XykoX

Synergy client & Mac OS X Leopard | XykoX — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:34:58 +0000

[...] de panique, d’après Jan Varwig et la doc d’Apple les StartupItems sont depracated et les scripts sont gérés par lauchnd. Donc [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:58:24 +0000

Everything worked perfectly for me by the original instructions, except for the "Program Arguments" section only shows one hyphen in front of no-daemon, no-restart and debug. It should actually be just as you would type from terminal:

--no-daemon
--no-restart
--debug WARNING

Thanks for taking the time to explain how to get this working properly for 10.5+

By: Lincoln Short

Lincoln Short — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:44:35 +0000

thanks heaps for the swapping around of the alt & super keys in the config file (see above).
I’ve been searching for this fix for over 3 days, I have a mac keyboard on a windows box thats being the server and I keep trying different drivers and key mappings and in the end this resolved it thats heaps!

By: job

job — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:33:17 +0000

Maybe someone can use this (although not perfect). This is how I start Synergy client on my mac with Leopard OS:
File: /Applications/synergy/synergyclientstart
DIRECTORY=/Applications/synergy/synergy-1.3.1
$DIRECTORY/synergyc -f -d WARNING 192.168.3.3
exit 0

File: /Library/LaunchAgents/net.sourceforge.synergy2.plist

Label
net.sourceforge.syngery2
KeepAlive

ProgramArguments

/Applications/synergy/synergyclientstart
–no-daemon
–no-restart
–debug
WARNING

RunAtLoad

ServiceDescription
Synergy Client

By: PlanBForOpenOffice

PlanBForOpenOffice — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:24:35 +0000

Also, you can copy your configuration into ~/.synergy.conf and so no need to identify the config file.

By: PlanBForOpenOffice

PlanBForOpenOffice — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:02:14 +0000

Gee, when you copy and past, make sure you replace all dashes in the options such as "--no-daemon"

The copy and past adds characters that look like dashes, but are not for this type of script.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:03:13 +0000

Just a quick note to all people having problems: I haven't used Synergy in 1,5 years. I use Macs exclusively now and between them Teleport works just way better. So I can't help you with any trouble you might experience but since this page is quite popular you might find other people who might be able to assist or share experiences in this very comment thread which I'm going to leave open.
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By: battis.net » Blog Archive » Synergy on OS X

battis.net » Blog Archive » Synergy on OS X — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:40:04 +0000

[...] on OS X Leopard (and starting it manually is kind of a hassle). My approach is based on Jan Varwig’s instructions, which needed yet more modification for my purposes. Having configured synergy.conf, I set the [...]

By: georg

georg — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:50:21 +0000

I have the same problem as Andrew. Any ideas to this?

By: ryall

ryall — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:55:51 +0000

For the record, don’t copy and paste from the plist text above. It puts in some weird dashes for the arguments (-no-daemon etc). Took me a long while to figure out why things weren’t working…