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Creating a screen wrapping configuration

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Product: Synergy (all versions)
Operating system: Windows, macOS, and Linux

 

What is Screen Wrap?

Screen wrap lets your mouse move continuously from the last screen in a row to the first—creating a loop. For example, if you have two screens side by side and move your mouse off the right edge of the second screen, it will reappear on the left edge of the first screen. This makes navigation between multiple displays more fluid and efficient.

 

Note: Screen wrap isn’t supported in Synergy’s graphical configuration grid, so you’ll need to create and load a custom configuration file manually.

 

Steps to Enable Screen Wrap

Export and edit the current configuration

    1. In Synergy 1: Go to File > Save Configuration As to export your existing setup.

    2. In Synergy 3: Enable the config mode to see the existing config

Open the config file in a text editor (or use the build in editor in Synergy 3) to findsection: links.

You might see something like:

 
section: links
server:
    left = client

client:
    right = server

 

Edit the config file to create a wrap:

section: links
server:
    left = client
    right = client

client:
    left = server
    right = server

 

Using the new config file

In Synergy 1:

  1. Navigate to Configure (server configuration), and then to the config file tab.
  2. Check the "Use a server config file" option, then click the folder icon to navigate and point to the edited config file.
  3. Press OK, then Apply

 

Synergy 3:

  1. Once the changes have been made for the screen wrap:
    1. On Primary (server) select the option to run as server, then save and apply
    2. On Secondary (client) add in the IP of the server, if not already pre-filled, and press save and apply

Note - to run a custom config, you need to keep the config mode enabled.

 

Sandwich arrangement

In some cases, one computer will have 'sandwiched; monitor:

In these configurations, the steps are to:

  1. Create the wrap as outlined above
  2. Swap the monitors around in the OS monitor arrangement settings, in order to reverse/mirror the switching borders:




It will look strange, physically the above configuration is correct. We are tricking the OS to function properly with the Synergy layout.

For a vertical configuration, you’d stack the monitors on top of each other.

 

 

 

 

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