Start synergy on boot of Ubuntu 12.04

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Published on 2013-10-30T21:40:57Z Indexed on 2013/10/30 22:17 UTC
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I am having problems getting synergy to start on boot of my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop machine.

I followed the troubleshooting at Start synergy on boot? completely, but I still couldn't get synergy to start on boot up.

I tried running my client starter script manually and here is what resulted:

m@m-o:/etc/synergy$ cat startsynergyc
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/synergyc -n MWin1 3.22.21.145
m@m-o:/etc/synergy$ ll
total 28
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Oct 30 14:29 ./
drwxr-xr-x 143 root root 12288 Oct 30 14:31 ../
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    54 Oct 30 14:29 startsynergyc*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    67 Oct 30 14:06 startsynergys*
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   659 Oct 30 14:06 synergy.conf
m@m-o:/etc/synergy$ ./startsynergyc
INFO: Synergy 1.4.14 Client on Linux 3.8.0-32-generic #47~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 2 16:19:35 UTC 2013 x86_64

It appears that synergy is running. This is exactly what is being told to startup with ubuntu assuming I did the lightdm modification correctly. However, I don't see any synergy running, and I certainly can't control the other computer.

Btw, I changed my ip in the log from what it actually is ~ Is this a necessary precaution or are ips local to the network? What does knowing my IP allow someone to do?

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