Quite a while back, I wrote an article about Synergy. There exists a nasty bug concerning the keyboard layouts. When typing on the client machine with the host’s keyboard, the keystrokes have been interpreted according to the US American layout instead according to the German one.Though there seems to exist no solution, according to this, there’s at least a work-around by letting the Desktop Environment of both computers handle keyboard layouts. For KDE 4.4.2, the following worked perfectly (as usual: I’m using the German UI, so English titles may not be accurate):
- System Settings
- Local Settings & Language
- Keyboard Layout
- Set radio button to “Activate Keyboard Layouts”
- If necessary (not in my case): Add your desired layout to the list of active layouts
- Apply
- Restart Synergy Server
That’s it. But remember to follow this procedure on the server as well as the client(s). By the way: The original Synergy project by Chris Schoenemann and the maintenance fork Synergy+ finally merged. Here’s the new web site: http://synergy-foss.org/
