Tips and Tricks
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A screen can be its own neighbor. That allows a screen to "wrap".
For example, if a configuration linked the left and right sides of
a screen to itself then moving off the left of the screen would put
the mouse at the right of the screen and vice versa.
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Turn off mouse driven virtual desktop switching on X windows. It
will interfere with synergy. Use keyboard shortcuts instead.
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Clients can be started and stopped at any time. When a screen is
not connected, the mouse will jump over that screen as if the mouse
had moved all the way across it and jumped to the next screen.
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Strong authentication and encryption is available by using SSH. See
the security guide for more information.
Synergy does not otherwise provide secure communications and it should
not be used on or over untrusted networks.
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Synergy doesn't work if a 16-bit Windows application has the focus
on Windows 95/98/Me. This is due to limitations of Windows. One
commonly used 16-bit application is the command prompt
(command.exe)
and this includes synergy's log window when running in test mode.