Per http://synergy-project.org/wiki/Security versions of of Synergy from 1.7.0 and up use a new plugin system, and the encryption options depend on a new encryption plugin. The present ebuild does not install the plugins along with the binaries, and does not generate an SSL certificate. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install synergy-1.7.3 2. launch qsynergy 3. Select Edit->Settings from the menus Actual Results: Netwowrk Security section of the settings window is greyed out (disabled) Expected Results: Network Security section of the settings window should not be disabled; the option to enable or disable SSL encryption should be selectable. Information about the plugins setup in >=synergy-1.7.0 can be found here: http://synergy-project.org/wiki/Plugins Instructions on installing the security plugin can be found here: http://synergy-project.org/wiki/Security#For_1.7.0_and_above From the above, it appears that the default assumption by Synergy is that it's profile and plugins info will be going into ~/.synergy. I haven't yet found how to do make changes to a user's home directory in the ebuild documentation, and I have my doubts that such is even the right thing to do. Per the above linked documentation, it is possible to change the profile/plugin directories, but I'm not certain where in the file system the appropriate place would be if it can't be a user's home dir. /usr/lib/synergy? /etc/synergy? 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This is probably because we're using our own install rules. I see such a plugin is being built.
Its because the default configuration of Synergy is to download libns.so from the web and install it into your home directory. Because Gentoo isn't a supported distribution of Synergy you see the error message in the wizard. http://synergy-project.org/wiki/Plugins You can change where Synergy looks for plugins by passing --plugin-dir but this would be a huge pain for users. I've opened to ask Synergy to support searching a system installed location https://github.com/synergy/synergy/issues/4880 I've worked around this by copying libns.so out of the Gentoo build environment into ~/.synergy/plugins
Can we at least install the plugin somewhere via the normal build so I can launch synergy with --plugin-dir manually?
*** Bug 577218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It should be safe to install into /usr/<libdir>/synergy/plugins but maybe that needs a patch as by default ../synergy/plugins/ is searched, which would assume that /usr/bin is the CWD.
But there is more trouble: if you have other plugins installed in $HOME/.synergy/plugins/ then the /usr/<libdir>/synergy/plugins/ directory is ignored while searching for plugins. So you'd have to copy the plugins (i.e. libns.so) from there to your local directory, too, for the local plugins to be used, and then manually set the plugins directory.
1.8.1-r1 installs just that, but you will have to tell synergy to find it in /usr/<libdir>/synergy/plugins manually for now. Anyone want to come up with a proper patch? :)
Shared libraries on Linux are normally +x, so that should have been doexe, not doins.
But then the insinto should be changed to exeinto in the previous line. Right now libns.so gets installed into / (the root directory).
Ugh, you're right.
(In reply to Akos Szalkai from comment #9) > But then the insinto should be changed to exeinto in the previous line. > Right now libns.so gets installed into / (the root directory). So that's in -r3.
Comment #11 from 3.5 years ago suggests that this is fixed. Is that correct?
Feel free to reopen if there's still a problem.
