Another Synergy issue: screen lock on Windows Server 2003

Question

I have set up Synergy on Unix systems with no problems, however when I set up a Synergy server on a Windows Server 2003 box using I get an error message that the mouse cursor is locked when trying to move to the client system. I use a Microsoft Natural keyboard in case that matters (seems Scroll Lock might be involved). Does anyone have experience with using Synergy on Windows systems that have reported mouse screen locking in the log when unable to mouse over to a client system?

Answer 1

I run the Synergy server on my Mac and the client on both a Vista machine and a GNU/Linux (Gentoo) box. On the Vista box I notice that when the screen is locked I am unable to unlock it with the shared (Mac) keyboard. But with Gentoo, this works quite seamlessly. I am not sure what the solution is though and it'd be nice to find one.

Answer 2

Paul: The Scroll-lock key is the "lock the mouse to this screen and don't let it leave" key. you can change it off by adding this in the options section of the ~/.synergy.conf or /etc/synergy.conf

keystroke(f12) = lockCursorToScreen(toggle)