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Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

I am trying to connect N900 with Win 7 Laptop using Laptop as server by I am unable to start the server using the above config file... Please check the error message logged

Quote:

synergys.exe: no configuration available

cannot read configuration "D:/Program Files/Synergy/synergy.sgc": read error: line 1: invalid character 0xffffffff

I can start with default configuration, without the config file but my client unable to connect

Quote:

/usr/bin # synergyc 192.168.1.66
synergy: %z%s Client on %s %s

Pls Help, thanks in advance...

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

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Originally Posted by Zas (Post 1140893)

I've only gotten the N900 receive input; but when I run the N900 as the server nothing appears on the N9 when I type.

You must get focus switched from N900 to N9. Can you do that? (i.e. move mouse cursor over screen edge. It is not possible with absolute touch screen)

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

Could anyone owning N9 and N900 try using Synergy to get N900 keyboard to input in N9 terminal? If this would work over N9-N900 ad-hoc network it would be very useful (n950 hwk apps would be a go for example)

EDIT: As screen switching is not going to work based on the above posts, maybe hotkey would?

keystroke(control+right) = switchInDirection(right)

should work if N9 was linked to the right.

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

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Originally Posted by szopin (Post 1173569)

EDIT: As screen switching is not going to work based on the above posts, maybe hotkey would?

keystroke(control+right) = switchInDirection(right)

Great, thanks for this.
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Using N900's keyboard for device without keyboard (e.g. N9):
N900 is acting as synergy-server
On n900, create file /etc/synergy.conf:

Code:

    section: screens

    client-n9:

    server-n900:

    end



    section: links

    client-n9:

            right = server-n900



    server-n900:

            left = client-n9

    end



    section: options

    screenSaverSync = false

    keystroke(control+q) = switchInDirection(left)

    keystroke(control+w) = switchInDirection(right)

    end

This is working example file, it uses CTRL+q and CTRL+w for switching between devices. If you (and your devices and network) are fluent with ip-addresses and hostnames, you can use them instead of server-n900 and client-n9.

On n900 start server with command (installed from extras-devel)

Code:

synergys -f --name server-n900

-f means foreground, so you will see what is happening. If you make shortcut-icon, drop -f. This also explicitly uses same name than configure uses.

Then on N9 start client (downloaded from this thread)

Code:

synergyc -f --name client-n9 SERVER-IP-ADDRESS

IP-address (or working hostname) is needed.

CTRL+q will change focus to the N9. Then touchscreen of N9 works as expect, but touchscreen of N900 sends something to the N9 (=it can't be used for controlling any of the devices).

I don't have N9, so I made video with two N900's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjoYttTJICk

Keep in mind that synergy is using lot's of battery!

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

Awesome! Thanks Aapo, this makes N9 more likely to be bought (once the prices settle down a bit) f* Nokia for not releasing N950. It is now available in two-piece edition thanks to You, one major roadblock averted. Also N900 has supposedly better kbd than N950 :D If there is build-essentials and similar lib collection for Harmattan... Yay! (build-essentials afaik is a go, libs will follow or can be handmade, so far so good). With flash/inception and this... it is a good day for smartphones indeed

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

Did somebody already get the mouse cursor appear on the phone? For me it is invisible and the only advice I found was recompiling the kernel. But this is not an option.
Somebody mentioned that he connects a mouse through usb-hostmode and this activates a cursor.
Any way to get this working without connecting anything? Maybe it is a shell script or kind of.

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

never found the cursor either.

About your question regarding usb mouse, well i tried hooking up my microsoft usb mouse and keyboard, but it was not recognized and no cursor appeared neither.

keepin an eye out for the cursor issue.

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

Funny this thread got resurrected, should be trivial to compile this for Jolla and use Jolla+N900 for hwkb (not the best solution as this uses wifi, so rather huge battery drain, but until BT solution is out there, should work)

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pinatz (Post 1200379)

Did somebody already get the mouse cursor appear on the phone? For me it is invisible and the only advice I found was recompiling the kernel. But this is not an option.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fr33dom (Post 1345234)

never found the cursor either.

Can you explain what you are trying to do? This thread is a mess and contains several topics. What devices (phones/PCs) are involved? Which one is server and which one is client? Where is external mouse connected?

At least N900 can show mouse cursor. E.g hack from: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=42485 or package http://maemo.org/packages/view/extmou/

Re: [Announce] Synergy (shared keyboard+mouse) on extras-devel

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Originally Posted by AapoRantalainen (Post 1345356)

extmou does way more than just showing cursor, it pulls as a dependency a fixed evdev driver which supports mice.