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Upgrading SynergyKM to use 1.3.1

I recently discovered SynergyKM which is a Mac OS X (works on Leopard) frontend for Synergy. All SynergyKM does is write out the config file for Synergy and manipulate the daemon. I noticed that SynergyKM is bundled with Synergy 1.3.0. There was a specific OS X bug in 1.3.0 that was fixed in 1.3.1. Here is how to upgrade the SynergyKM to version 1.3.1.

  1. Download SynergyKM Beta 6 installer
  2. Mount the DMG and run the installer (I installed for the current user only)
  3. Download the Synergy 1.3.1 OSX tarball
  4. Extract the tarball to ~/Downloads/synergy-1.3.1/
  5. We are going to replace the Synergy 1.3.0 binaries bundled with SynergyKM with the 1.3.1 version. Open up a Terminal and run the following: 
    
cd ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SynergyKM.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Synergyd.app/Contents/Resources/
mv synergyc synergyc-1.3.0
mv synergys synergys-1.3.0
cp ~/Downloads/synergy-1.3.1/synergyc ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SynergyKM.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Synergyd.app/Contents/Resources/
cp ~/Downloads/synergy-1.3.1/synergys ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SynergyKM.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Synergyd.app/Contents/Resources/
  6. Open up the SynergyKM prefpane, go to the About panel
  7. SynergyKM About

    SynergyKM About

  8. Configure Synergy, turn it on and you’re done!

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9 Responses to “Upgrading SynergyKM to use 1.3.1”

  1. Kenny Mullican Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Thanks for this post! I had been struggling with getting everything to work right with no GUI on the Mac OS X 10.5 and this made it very easy!

  2. GH Says:
    October 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Does this fix the screen saver sync?

  3. madteckhead Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 5:50 am

    Thanks buddy. Was wondering where to copy the new files to. Since my server was already started I had to do a full system reset. I tried killing the process, but it left some resources in a non accessible state. So hard reset seems to be the easiest way to get it working if you already have the server up and going.
    Cheers N

  4. Michael Says:
    February 8th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Thanks for this post. For controlling two Macs with the same mouse and keyboard, I did find another free alternative (donation-ware) that works perfectly for me “out of the box” for the same purposes. It’s called Teleport. See http://abyssoft.com/software/teleport/

    In addition to using the same mouse and keyboard for multiple Macs, you can sync the pasteboards, drag-and-drop files between Macs, etc. It appears to be further along in its development than SynergyKM.

    I have it connecting a Mac with Leopard to a Mac with Tiger. Anyway, I mention this because I found it useful myself, when someone mentioned it on another blog.

  5. Dom Says:
    February 12th, 2009 at 8:08 am

    Any way to get SynergyKM to start the server at login? Cant see an option for it.

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    February 16th, 2009 at 5:03 am

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  7. Kylie Batt Says:
    April 12th, 2010 at 9:41 am

    Браво, ваша мысль великолепна…

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  8. Kylie Batt Says:
    May 3rd, 2010 at 9:23 am

    забираааююю!!! СПС ОГРОМНЕЙШЕЕ!!!!…

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  9. JohnLBA Says:
    May 24th, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    It’s very good article.

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