Comments on: FIX: Synergy slow and laggy in Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”

By: bill

bill — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:04:38 +0000

THANKS! Worked like a charm! Now my Synergy is no longer laggy between windows and ubuntu.

SynergyServer = WindowsXPPro 32Bit
SynergyClient = Ubuntu 8.04LTS

By: jesse

jesse — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:32:21 +0000

Awesome! I’ve been using synergy between XP and Ubuntu for a long time now, and 8.04 broke it…. your solution worked perfectly.

Thanks!

By: undecided

undecided — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:25:30 +0000

That’s cool, works like a charm - ta much!

Have also noticed that my at symbol has turned into a Ω (omega) - I’m writing this using synergy and had to get an @ symbol from the character map. I’ve also noticed that to repeatedly click buttons, you have to move the mouse off the button then back over it. Both these might be quirks of the setup (xubuntu server, xfce, and Ubuntu studio client, gnome…) I’m also using the SSH trick mentioned in the man page, but that is probably not an issue.

Ho hum. Synergy is great, regardless of these small glitches…

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:29:50 +0000

Thanks! Running synergy as root helped the lag problem. I was almost ready to just try another distro.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:21:50 +0000

Thanks so much! My synergy lag issue / problem was solved immediately by running the client as root.

By: Georges

Georges — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:03:58 +0000

I’m using ssh to tunnel synergy and there is some lag, No pausing and then continuing but just general lagging behind (around 1 second). Before updating ubuntu there was no lag.

If I do not use SSH tunnel, it’s all fine!

server: ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex, opensshd
client: windows XP, putty

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:42:29 +0000

Same here. Worked like a charm.

By: beeplogic

beeplogic — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:32:26 +0000

Worked for me! Right as I was about to give up.

By: TimJ

TimJ — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:29:49 +0000

Will running the Synergy server as root increase performance in general? I’m running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and tunneling 24800 over ssh. I’ve noticed some general lag in the mouse and would love to eliminate it. Thanks.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:30:44 +0000

Worked for me, too.