Sunday, August 3, 2008

Synergy OpenSolaris

I've been a big fan of Synergy for years and getting it to compile on OpenSolaris is just a question of installing SUNWxorg-headers:

Grab the Synergy source and unpack then cd to the directory and install the SUNxorg-headers:
james@ickle:~/Download$ tar xf synergy-1.3.1.tar
james@ickle:~/Download$ cd synergy-1.3.1
james@ickle:~/Download/synergy-1.3.1$ pfexec pkg install SUNWxorg-headers


then it should compile as normal:
james@ickle:~/Download/synergy-1.3.1$ ./configure
james@ickle:~/Download/synergy-1.3.1$ make
james@ickle:~/Download/synergy-1.3.1$ pfexec make install


As an example here is my synergy config file:

james@frank:~$ cat /etc/synergy.conf
section: screens
ickle:
frank:
douglas:
meta = alt
end

section: links
ickle:
right = frank
frank:
left = ickle
right = douglas
douglas:
left = frank
end


The meta = alt line under douglas is to make synergy play nice with a Mac as a client.

The result is three machines with one keyboard and mouse.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Its so nice to see my speaker box has made the trip down south lol