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BillyLavoie

Every time my computer goes to sleep I have to restart the background service on the computer I use as the server (for some reason my other computer takes over and when I try to switch it everything fails). Would it be possible to include a button to automatically restart the background service so I don't have to go to the terminal every time? At least until Synergy 2 is stabilized a bit.

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GranPaSmurf

It's not only possible, it's a good idea, at least for now. The developers have bounced the idea around.

When it's a mature product, such a toggle might imply that it's still needing intervention, but now...

What OSs are you using? On my Windows machine I made a shortcut to 'services' in the taskbar. It speeds up the task. Elsewhere on the forum the Linux guys have posted batch files that work.

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BillyLavoie

I'm using MacOS so it is possible to make a quick batch file but I feel like it should be in the app until things can be smoothen out. I'm a developer so I don't have a problem with it, but the average end user will

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Cheryl Lomedico

I have posted this in a few of the sections .. not sure if this is a similar problem

still getting a re-connection problem when my laptop (win10) is woken up due to inactivity > 10 mins and goes to sleep. I wake up my laptop and click on the enter key to wake up my imac (sierra).  Client on the laptop tries to re-connect but doesn't. I have to go to services to restart synergy.

This problem with waking up and re-connecting to imac has been happening for awhile with version 2.

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GranPaSmurf

Have you guys tried this? On the computer that didn't fall asleep, mouse-grab one of the screens and move it away for a few seconds. They should 'go gray.' Then reposition them touching again.

This is supposed to restart the Synergy-Core on both machines.

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Cheryl Lomedico

When I return to my office, Win10 is asleep. Imac does not have keyboard and mouse functionality because keybd/mouse is connected to Win10. I have keybd/mouse attached to imac in case but not used unless it is an emergency. Win10 is primary workstation

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BillyLavoie
1 hour ago, GranPaSmurf said:

Have you guys tried this? On the computer that didn't fall asleep, mouse-grab one of the screens and move it away for a few seconds. They should 'go gray.' Then reposition them touching again.

This is supposed to restart the Synergy-Core on both machines.

That unfortunately didn't work for me. At first I would restart both machines but that got old quick so I dug around and found out that running the three commands to restart the background service on the server seems to be enough to get things working

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BillyLavoie
4 hours ago, Cheryl Lomedico said:

share the 3 commands???? :D

Nothing too magical, I just found the known bug page https://symless.com/synergy/help/known-bugs and what fixes it for me is restarting the background service which lists the steps for each OS https://symless.com/synergy/help/connection/background-service

For MacOS you're looking for these 3: 

launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.symless.synergy.synergy-service.plist
sudo killall synergy-core
launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.symless.synergy.synergy-service.plist

Then when I go back to Synergy and it will complain about not being able to talk to the background service and there will be a refresh link, click that and you should be good to go

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Cheryl Lomedico

The disable/enable from system tray worked.

 

The 3 commands are for mac. My primary station is my win10 laptop.

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BillyLavoie
8 hours ago, Steve Williams said:

Have you tried the tray icon disable/enable feature that shipped with 2.0.7?

I did this morning to test and that unfortunately didn't fix it. Ran my script and clicked refresh and everything was back in business. 

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BillyLavoie

It's just the 3 commands to restart the service:

 

#!/bin/bash

launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.symless.synergy.synergy-service.plist
sudo killall synergy-core
launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.symless.synergy.synergy-service.plist

 

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For what it's worth, I also had this problem today.  The problem seemed to affect the Win10 Pro machine, rather than the Win8.1 Pro machine.  I had to manually kill the Win10 processes before everything came back to life.

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