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Bug 646382 - Cannot go "up" or "down" with Synergy and the Gnome Shell.
Cannot go "up" or "down" with Synergy and the Gnome Shell.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 633620
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.91.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-03-31 20:46 UTC by Luke Macken
Modified: 2011-05-24 17:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Luke Macken 2011-03-31 20:46:24 UTC 
Problem
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synergy, the tool for sharing the keyboard/mouse across multiple machines,
works in the gnome-shell, however it does not let you go "up" or "down" to get
to another machine, only "left" or "right"

Reproducing
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yum install synergy-plus
Open up port 24800 on your synergy server

`/etc/synergy.conf` for two machines, tomservo and crow:

	section: screens
		tomservo:
		crow:
	end

	section: links
		tomservo:
			down = crow
		crow:
			up = tomservo
	end


On your primary machine:

        synergys -f

On your secondary:

        synergyc -f <IP>
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2011-04-11 21:11:43 UTC 
so isn't this a synergy bug?
Comment 2 Luke Macken 2011-05-24 17:33:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> so isn't this a synergy bug?

I don't think so.

Synergy works great on all other window managers, including the GNOME 2.x. It seems like this an issue with the shells desktop edge detection, or something.

I also noticed another odd behavior. When I have a gnome-terminal maximized, I am unable to go 'right' or 'left' to my other monitors, yet I am able to do so with any other program maximized...
Comment 3 Dan Winship 2011-05-24 17:54:07 UTC 
Ah, probably synergy is assuming that it can put windows on the screen edges to catch events and that it cause them (by some means) to float above everything else (panels, etc). But that won't work in gnome-shell because nothing can float above the chrome.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 633620 ***