Synergy - Mouse Look Solution

[wougoose]

I am currently using Synergy with broadcasting. I found a solution that works well with mouse looking. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

This is what I did:

For the server, check the relative mouse checkbox under the options.

In the hot keys section, I added the following two hotkeys:

hotkey 1:
key: right mouse click ( mousebutton(3) )
function: Lock Cursor to screen: On
Toggle radio button "Hot key is pressed"

hotkey 2:
key: right mouse click ( mousebutton(3) )
function: Lock Cursor to screen: Off
Toggle radio button "Hot key is released"

In effect, when your mouse is on your secondary screen and you proceed to right click to move around, it will lock the mouse to that screen so you can move around. When you release the mouse like you would do when you stop looking around, it unlocks the mouse from that screen so you can go back to your other screens.

It works perfectly for me, except the fact that when you release the lock on the screen the cursor resets to the center. If anyone has a solution to that please let me know.

For now, it seems to be working great. I now have the ability to toggle keyboard broadcasting and mouse looking on each secondary screen.

UPDATE:
The cursor resetting after releasing the right mouse button is way more bearable if the secondary monitors are set to full screen mode and not windowed mode.

-goose

[Draxin]

Worked like a charm, thank you.

That makes life so much easier.

[Ad Abolendam]

Thanks for posting this, the spinning camera was getting the best of me.

Unfortunately, this creates a new problem. It basically shuts off the right mouse button on the client screen. No right mouse events get there.

So I tried expanding your solution by adding a second event to each binding, like this:

---------------

hotkey 1:
key: right mouse click ( mousebutton(3) )

event #1: function: Lock Cursor to screen: On
Toggle radio button "Hot key is pressed"

event #2: action: Press ( mousebutton(3) )
Toggle radio button "Hot key is pressed"

---------------

hotkey 2:
key: right mouse click ( mousebutton(3) )

event #1: function: Lock Cursor to screen: Off
Toggle radio button "Hot key is released"

event #2: action: Release ( mousebutton(3) )
Toggle radio button "Hot key is released"

---------------

I was hoping that this would force right mouse button press and release events to be sent to the client machine. Instead, it only sends press events. And then the client machine gets confused about mousebutton1 and mousebutton3. And THEN the SERVER gets confused too.

And then I eventually have to reboot to get everything back to normal.

Any ideas? The right mouse button is kind of important.

The only thing I can think of is to disable mouse look in WoW on the client machine, and then not mess with any of this.

I'm running Synergy 1.3.1 with two XP boxes.

- Ad

[smallo]

bump for justice!!!!!

using the first original post here, i get the mouse locking to the second screen, any options to correct this. didnt see much around the rest of the forums.

[smallo]

have one, was just bored and trolling forums.

really must love some peoples enthusiasm around here sometimes

it was more a case of not accidentally moving the cameras and it flipping out into some strange universe when quickly clicking something over one of the 6 pc's that synergy covers.

[skarlot]

im about to post a new app like Synergy/Multibox tomorrow just tidying it up atm........ just a heads up :P and you get a pass through list for multimedia keys. Multibox overiding slave keyboards just doesnt add up tho - how can that happen? :shock: