If Synergy client is started under root everything works fine. If started under ordinary user, every 10 - 15 seconds input on the client is blocked (hangs) for a couple of seconds (both varying times). I believe that this was introduced in the previous ~ 6 months as installation that I had previously worked fine. And since synergy is same for the last ~ 2 years, it's probably something in the ebuild (that GCC fix perhaps?) My server side remained the same through both clients - it's same hardware, I reinstalled the whole system where client is run. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. as non-root user execute synergyc 192.168.0.1 (or whatever) 2. 3.
Forgot to add before - the init.d script reports crashed. As root: msi alex # /etc/init.d/synergy status * status: crashed msi alex # /etc/init.d/synergy stop * Stopping synergyc ... [ ok ] msi alex # synergyc 192.168.0.1 After that it works. And changing the init.d script to do exactly the same does not change the way it behaves - as if started by original init.d ... hacked init.d ... start() { ebegin "Starting synergyc" exec synergyc 192.168.0.1 } stop() { ebegin "Stopping synergyc" exec killall synergyc }
This is a problem throughout linux. I haven't been able to really track down the issue myself, even running it has root causes some hang-ups. I think it is related to xcb being used in X11. There are some patches floating around, but I can't find a good source for them. Problem still exist in the SVN repo also.
Found the fix http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1674548&group_id=59275&atid=490467 I have patch this against the svn build I use it and it works nicely. If you want to the ebuild, feel free to grab it from my git repo git://sh.shelladdict.org/~gibbonsr/insanity5902-portage.git
I also see this (random pauses 3-6s long a few times per minute). But only when using a more recent gentoo as client. If I switch and set the more modern gentoo as server there are no lags on the older machine. The old workaround of starting client as root also works. running: x11-misc/synergy-1.3.1
I'm sorry that this bug wasn't resolved in a timely fashion. I just picked up maintainership of the package and in order to move foward, I'll kindly request that you test against the latest versions, 1.3.6 or 1.4.5-r1
