[Bug 476870] Re: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc
[Expired for synergy (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: synergy (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476870 Title: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 476870] Re: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc
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[Bug 476870] Re: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test a current, supported, Ubuntu version. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 476870, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue. ** Changed in: synergy (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476870 Title: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 476870] Re: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc
I found that, to summarize... if I have a 9 button on the mouse on the server, but the client only has a 3 button mouse, synergy will crash when I use one of those extra buttons. As some others have noticed, it's whatever the last mouse used had. As a work around for me -- and this is nowhere near a "good" solution, but it beats losing my keyboard and mouse every time Synergy crashes -- I add a "trackstick.fdi" file to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ : true 2 4 5 26 27 true 200 32 (I have a trackstick identified as "PS/2 Generic Mouse" on my Vaio P, obviously.) This lets me do vertical scrolling while holding the middle mouse button down, and since I don't have buttons 26 and 27 assigned to do anything, doesn't let me scroll horizontally with the trackstick (still works fine via Synergy.) The "Buttons" parameter seems to be ignored. All the other buttons that are missing -- 8 and 9 for my mouse -- also work fine. Obviously this kind of kludge won't work for other people, but hopefully it will help. -- Middle-click randomly kills synergyc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476870 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 476870] Re: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc
That comment was mine; I've discovered something else today (also posting this on the synergyplus issue tracker in case it helps the author there). My client machine is a Thinkpad with two native pointing devices, a Trackpoint pointing stick and a trackpad; "xinput list" says that the pointing stick has 5 buttons and the trackpad has 12. The server machine has a Logitech G5 laser and "xinput list" says it has 32 buttons, though there are only 8 physical buttons on the mouse. If the last time I touched the laptop physically I used the trackpoint, any attempt to use buttons 6,7 or 8 will crash synergyc with the previously-mentioned error. If the last time I used the laptop I used the trackpad (with 12 buttons), I can then use any of the mouse buttons through synergy with no error. I think the "horizontal scrolling" feature was a red herring, and all that mattered was that I'd used the touchpad last, so it was the "active" pointing device and it had enough buttons. Changing which pointing device was active last will toggle whether the crash happens or not, quite reliably. It looks to me like the X server in Karmic has tightened up the bounds checking on the input devices and the mechanism that synergy is using to inject input events doesn't take into account the fact that input events might be injected from a more capable device than the ones physically connected to the machine running the X server; this might be a bug in X if synergy is using the mechanism correctly (I don't know, I'm in over my head right here). -- Middle-click randomly kills synergyc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476870 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 476870] Re: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc
The text of a comment to the Synergy+ bug I referenced above. This may help as well. I've been using synergy with Ubuntu as both server and client for many years; I just updated to Karmic and started getting these messages. Googling for the error messages brought me here; I have updated to synergyplus. I think it happens when the client X Server doesn't think the connected mouse (mice) have as many buttons as the mouse on the server has; clicking one of the extra buttons just results in an error. I verified this with 'xte' from the 'xautomation' package; running xte and typing 'mouseclick 6' simulates clicking the extra button on the mouse, and resulted in the same error. Since my client machine was a laptop with a touchpad, what I did was to enable the "horizontal scrolling" feature in Gnome's Mouse Preferences panel, then use the horizontal scroll feature for a second. This seems to have persuaded my client X Server that it now has lots of mouse buttons, and I can somewhat reliably use my extra mouse buttons through synergy. HTH -- Middle-click randomly kills synergyc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476870 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
