My main windows box at work melted recently and I decided it was a good excuse to make the machine that shares the mouse and keyboard be the iMac. The windows GUI has some nice toys that make it easier to use, but I just felt like moving over. One of the things it does magically is handle the difference in key mnemonics between Mac clients and Windows clients. Specifically the Command vs. Alt vs. WinKey difference. After digging around online I found a lot of conflicting and older information, and then I had to figure it out myself. So with some toying around I discovered that to use the mac as a host with Synergy 1.3.1, you set the ~/.synergy.conf like so to get the correct keyboard configuration (my entire config follows):
section: screens
daveb-mac:
daveb-win:
meta = alt
daveb-win2:
meta = alt
end
section: links
daveb-mac:
right = daveb-win
daveb-win:
left = daveb-mac
right = daveb-win2
daveb-win2:
left = daveb-win
end
It’s worth pointing out that if you share from your Windows Synergy 1.3.1 server, the GUI just does this for you for free.
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