Description of problem: When the pointer in in the screen of a different machine via synergy, screen saver and screen lock never kick in on the primary computer's screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): synergy-1.3.1-12.fc11.x86_64 gnome-screensaver-2.26.1-2.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Easily Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure 2 computers with synergy 2. Using the mouse on the primary (synergys) computer, move the pointer to the screen of the secondary (synergyc) computer. 3. Wait Actual results: Screen saver eventually starts on secondary screen, but never on primary screen. Expected results: Screen saver starts on both screens. Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I've packaged and imported synergy-plus in Fedora recently. It's a fork of synergy which focused on bug fixes for the current release. Note that you'll need to uninstall synergy first since the binary names conflict. From my limited testing, it's fully compatible with the old synergy. Could you try it and see if it fixes this issue?
I tested running synergys from synergy-plus on Fedora 11, and synergyc from synergy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. This still fails.
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This problem seems to have been reported upstream already. Windows users seem to have similar issues, but I think this is the relevant report : "Support for gnome-screensaver as well as xscreensaver" http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/issues/detail?id=112 Note that it might be worth trying adding "screenSaverSync = false" in the "section: options" part of your synergy.conf file, see : http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/configuration.html In any case, this is not something I'll be able to fix myself, I'll be relying on upstream for the fix to appear in a future release of synergy+.