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Mon, 20 Nov 2006
Synergy clipboard on OSX busts if started via SSH
I've been using synergy2 to help manage working with multiple PCs simultaneously. It's a great tool but sometimes strange errors can happen.
The problem
One error I finally decided to track down is trying to start a synergy client from a SSH connection in OSX to a synergy server. While the mouse and keyboard works. The clipboard functionality completely fails. What this means is you can't cut and paste from the machine running the synergy server to the OSX machine.
The workaround
The workaround is not too hard but a little annoying. You MUST start the synergy client locally on the OS X machine rather than SSH into the OS X machine. Perhaps when you SSH in, the synergy client isn't able to get a hook on the correct WindowServer or something so clipboard functionality goes south. However mouse and keyboard still work.... strange.
References:
Synergy 2's Bug Tracking database
Synergy 2