Haiku synergy client

mmu_man · June 20, 2019, 11:19pm

Well it’s probably just because of gcc which is newer and more strict on the syntax, shouldn’t be that hard to fix.

mmu_man · June 20, 2019, 11:20pm

But yeah, closing the thing because it’s stale, just because they never bothered answering questions, heck.

cb88 · June 21, 2019, 4:07am

Yeah it always makes me grumpy when people do that… a course I get grumpy when @waddlesplash brings the hammer down on my tickets but he usually has good reason and is to be commended for his ticket tracker cleanliness…

nhtello · July 11, 2019, 11:55pm

Hello all; i can do it compile, but now tells that its not an a excecutable:

~/config/non-packaged/add-ons/input_server/devices> synergy_client
bash: ./synergy_client: cannot execute binary file: Not an executable

Any help? Thanks
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Edit: Add a screenshot
https://paste.pics/24ef4c4954bb698fc3bcaa343fc4daee

extrowerk · July 12, 2019, 4:28am

Thats probably just the input_server addon, and they shouldnt be used directly, they are not executable.

PulkoMandy · July 12, 2019, 6:52am

Put it in config/non_packaged/add-ons/input-server and reboot (or restart just the input_server). But it probably needs a configuration file as well?

Munchausen · July 12, 2019, 8:31am

Yes, see the readme:

Create a configuration file at ~/config/settings/synergy

enable = true
server = 192.168.1.101
server_keymap = “X11”

I intended to make some way to configure it from the GUI but then my first child was born and I moved somewhere where I didn’t have a haiku machine next to another machine on a desk any more! A network preflet services plugin is the way to go I think…

nhtello · July 12, 2019, 11:28pm

Thanks to all; i just restart the input server and its working! I fill more confortable now

haiku_synergy

For any other, the source is here: https://github.com/unarix/synergy-haiku

extrowerk · July 13, 2019, 4:11am

Please do not post or link binaries here.

return_0e · July 13, 2019, 7:55am

Rather than posting a compiled binary (we do not trust running closed-source binaries from untrusted users), It would be better to create a recipe for this at HaikuPorts so that all users can safely use this software.

nhtello · July 13, 2019, 3:29pm

ok @extrowerk; edited. Thanks.

nhtello · February 25, 2020, 3:42pm

Just for update: i modified the keymap of synergy, now the arrow keys work perfect.

I was thinking of create a recipe in haikuports but i need the permission of @kallisti5 since it is a fork of his work.

X512 · February 25, 2020, 5:02pm

You do not need any permissions to create HaikuPorts recipe poll request. Synergy fork is under GPL 2 license, see LICENSE file.

X512 · February 25, 2020, 5:05pm

Is it possible to use Haiku version of Synergy with Barrier? Free version of Synergy is not available for Windows so Barrier should be used. I tried to adjust protocol signature to Barrier some time ago, but it doesn’t help.

Munchausen · February 25, 2020, 5:42pm

You could use an old version of synergy from before it went closed source. Haiku synergy is based on my original port of usynergy to the haiku input device API. usynergy was chosen because it was an independent client implementation of the protocol with cleaner source than the original. I don’t know how clean the barrier source code is, but it might be easier to port barrier than to update the haiku usynergy port. There are no licensing problems, it only works now as it does because different people decided to help out, so please do whatever you want!

Diver · February 26, 2020, 11:02am

@kallisti5 seems to worked on that recently https://gitlab.com/kallisti5/barrier-haiku

X512 · February 28, 2020, 4:30am

I managed to run Haiku synergy (https://github.com/kallisti5/synergy-haiku, B_OK check in clipboard handling was changed to != NULL to fix build) with https://github.com/brahma-dev/synergy-stable-builds/releases (v1.8.8-stable). server_keymap need to changed to "AT". When attempting to copy text on Haiku, server reports error: ERROR: invalid message from client "haiku": DCLP. Copying text from windows is not working.

Diver · February 28, 2020, 9:16am

@kallisti5 did you manage to run it?

kallisti5 · February 28, 2020, 2:19pm

Synergy seems pretty dead. It hasn’t been updated forever, so that proves the “paid” open source model sucks

I recently took ~my~ the synergy-haiku codebase i’ve been managing, and refactored it for Barrier under a new name (Barrier is new, again open-source version with some protocol changes). barrier-haiku is working ~80% for me. Just disable tls.

Barrier (and Synergy) has some issues with wayland desktops on Linux though… ymmv

kallisti5 · February 28, 2020, 8:36pm

Aaahhh. Synergy blocked me from their github project after I mentioned that it looked pretty dead. (and deleted my github comment mentioning as much).

I’m going to delete my synergy haiku repo in favor of the Barrier one. Go ahead and fork my Synergy repo if desired.