30 Oct, 2008
Synergy Capitalizing Every Character and Holding Ctrl Down Fix
Posted by: john In: help
About once a week I have this issue with Synergy where it will capitalize all the characters and start automatically holding downing the Ctrl key on the client machine. I tried to changing the settings in the options, but I still had the problem. Oddly enough a co-worker had the same problem who found an “elegant solution” to this problem.
Just hit Ctrl + Alt + Delete on the server machine and then close the Task Manager (or hit cancel if you’re logged in). For some odd reason this seems to fix the problem every time.
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January 22nd, 2009 @ 7:34 am
By any chance, have you found a way to make Synergy make a Mac use a Windows keyboard? I have the server installed on my WinXp box and have a mac-mini hooked up to it via Synergy. But the mac wont accept the windows ctrl key as the apple key! its really annoying when using the keyboard to copy/paste etc.
thanks
May 12th, 2009 @ 10:14 am
THANK YOU!!
This post solved one of my biggest daily pet peeves with synergy.
Just wanted to say thanks,
-Mike
October 15th, 2009 @ 9:07 pm
I found just pressing Control fixed this issue for me. However, I am still looking for a method to send “ctrl-alt-del” to the client machine. I am using Synergy V1.3.1 for Windows and tried the HotKey configuration. However the hotkey field requires you to press the actual key sequence, you can’t simply type it into the field – and you press the ‘ctrl-alt-del’ key sequence, the server Task Manager appears nullifying the effort to program the Hotkey.
the synergy manual also refers to setting up a –config file with these types of parameters, however the Windows version has no such config file as all parameters are created and stored within the GUI.
Anyone?
October 15th, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
HA – I just found it two seconds after my first post. To emulate ‘ctrl-alt-del’ on Synergy client computers, just put the mouse onto the client screens and press “ctrl-alt-pause”.
Took me an hour and a half of google searches and reading to find that little treasure.
January 9th, 2010 @ 9:52 am
Hey this is funny, I had this article open in a tab from your “Synergy 1.3.1: Time Out” tab. I noticed my arrows didn’t work to navigate my cursor and I intuitively (dunno why) pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del. So.. it also fixes the cursor keys bug!
@Russel:
Thans for the Ctrl+Alt+Pause hint! Saved me 90 minutes of googling.