Synergy+ multiple clients and multiple monitors on one client

Question

Will Synergy recognize or allow four clients, one of which has 3 monitors for a total of 6 monitors?

Solution

It will work, but how you configure it depends on the OS. Under Windows, all attached monitors are treated as one "screen", so depending on the layout multiple screens may share an edge (so if you have two screens side by side, there is only one "top" edge. If you want to split this so that moving up on either screen goes to a different monitor, you will need to edit the config file and use partial edges.)

Under Linux with Xinerama (or nVidia TwinView) this is the same, but if you use separate X11 screens (aka Zaphod mode, where you can't drag windows between monitors, and DISPLAY=:0.1, :0.2, etc.) then it behaves quite differently and you may need to run one instance of Synergy for each screen.

I'm not sure about a multi-monitor Mac, but I'm guessing it's the same as Windows and Linux with Xinerama.

This is assuming the monitors form a more-or-less complete rectangle with no gaps (e.g. all the screens are in a line.) If the PC with three screens doesn't have them in a line (e.g. two side by side and one above) then it becomes much more complex and may not be possible to switch screens from every monitor edge you would like to.

Comments

[Metagrapher]

I'm happy it worked for you, what did you have to do to make it work, please?

[Metagrapher]

I'm happy it worked for you, what did you have to do to make it work, please?

[Metagrapher]

I'm happy it worked for you, what did you have to do to make it work, please?

[peelman]

That was 6 years, 4 jobs, and 7 setups ago. I just looked and while I have files from that machine, my synergy config wasn't among them. I do remember that back then the UIs weren't that great so I wrote the configs by hand. I would check out the synergy project's website; those guys do a pretty good job supporting users and answering questions.

[Metagrapher]

thank you much for revisiting. I was struggling with this (still am, in spite of valid configs) and was a bit frustrated with all the "works for me" answers on this page. So I truly very much appreciate that you looked :)

[Metagrapher]

which, rereading the original question, didn't ask for that specificity, so ever more thanks :)

[Joshua Nurczyk]

I have completely discontinued using this setup as I have completely changed environments.

[djsmiley2kStaysInside]

Personally have used Synergy with a linux and windows host (gentoo) with the linux box being the server, I didn't need to fire up extra instances of synergy to make it work. However, if you have 2 different linux instances then you will need an instance of synergy on each of them.