Comments on: Synergy On Solaris

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:01:28 +0000

Hmmm, looks like a problem with the Synergy code or possibly with your config file. Sorry, I can’t help much more, try the Synergy peeps directly.

By: Kedar

Kedar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:20:18 +0000

Hi,

i am trying to start synergy server on sunray solaris 9.0. but not able to. i get the following error message:

INFO: synergys.cpp,1042: Synergy server 1.3.1 on Unix
DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1051: opening configuration “/usr2/kedarb/synergy/synergy.conf”
DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1062: configuration read successfully
Assertion failed: s_instance != NULL, file CArch.cpp, line 156
synergy/bin/synergys: line 15: 27386 Abort $mydir/${myname}.bin $*

any clues what i am doing wrong here?

my command line was;

synergys –config ~/synergy/synergy -f –display $DISPLAY

( i also tried without the display switch; same error).

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:02:28 +0000

Getting Synergy starting automatically isn’t too hard. All you need to do is add the appropriate command either to your Gnome/JDS session settings or your ${HOME}/.dtprofile file (the latter should work for both CDE and Gnome/JDS).

If you’re running the client on Solaris, add the command:

/path/to/synergyc

… to your ${HOME}/.dtprofile or if you’re running the server on Solaris, add the command:

/path/to/synergys -c /path/to/synergy conf

Both of these will start the respective process only when you actually login graphically. You may want to add some additional checking to ensure the client/server process isn’t already running.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:31:15 +0000

Hey great post! I am wondering if you ever got things to start automatically? I have Synergy setup between Solaris 10 and Windows XP but can’t seem to find any help finding out how to get Synergy to start automatically on Solaris. If you ever got it working I would appreciate a link or script if you have it available. Thanks!