Quote Originally Posted by Nidaro
Hello.

While setting up my PCs for dual boxing, I've come to using Synergy and Multibox. Both work very nicely for the most part but each has a "bug" that has me still looking for some fix or alternative.

My main issue with Multibox is the server dying when I press ESCAPE too many times over a long period of time. I tend to press ESCAPE often both in EQ2 and WoW to close windows.

Would it be possible to either:
- make the "emergency" key configurable or some key that is less likely to be used during gameplay(example: CTRL-BREAK)
- keep a timestamp variable tracking when ESCAPE was last pressed and if it's been more than 2 seconds since last press, reset the counter to 0. This will make it less likely to kill the server accidentally over a long period of time.

In its current state, the multiboxserver process rarely lasts more than 20-30 minutes for me.

Exactly my problem; its been present since the facility to close the server by pressing ESC 4 times was put in. Some MMORPGs you just have to use ESC presses multiple times (eg FFXI).

The above suggestions are excellent, or changing the crash key to Alt-ESC, for example.