[solved]Plasma 6.1.4 + synergy, mouse won't leave the screen

maiku · Last edited by maiku on Wed Sep 04, 2024 7:26 pm; edited 1 time in total

KDE Plasma Version just got updated last night to 6.1.4 (as in I let an emerge run overnight). I have synergy 1.14.1-stable.b1-0badc0de installed as well. After the upgrade to Plasma 6.1.4, I can't get the mouse to leave the screen on my Gentoo machine running as the synergy server. If I add the debug options on synergy, there are no messages about anything when I move my mouse to the edge of the screen.

Is there a new feature in Plasma that could be blocking it? Just wondering if anybody has a similar experience or they are happily using something other than synergy that works with Plasma to accomplish this task.

Thanks!

EDIT: The computer seems to work as a client for synergy. I'd still like to restore the KDE Plasma machine as a server, but at least I can use it as a client for now.
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Michael

dmoulding · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2014 Posts: 28

The default login session for Plasma 6 is Wayland.

The current stable Synergy server doesn't work with Wayland.

However, adding Wayland support by way of libei is something they've been actively working on. From the looks of it, they'll have a release that works with Wayland pretty soon. [1]

In the meantime, you can select X11 as your login session (if you use a display manager like SDDM that allows you to choose).

[1] https://github.com/symless/synergy/pull/7449

maiku · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2024 7:26 pm Post subject:

Excellent answer. Thanks.
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Michael

maiku · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:09 pm Post subject:

Just a follow up:

Using these notes: https://github.com/symless/synergy/discussions/7456

I did the following: