[Bug 476870] Re: Middle-click randomly kills synergyc

[Cliff Barbier]

The text of a comment to the Synergy+ bug I referenced above.  This may
help as well.

I've been using synergy with Ubuntu as both server and client for many years; I just 
updated to Karmic and started getting these messages.  Googling for the error 
messages brought me here; I have updated to synergyplus.  I think it happens when the 
client X Server doesn't think the connected mouse (mice) have as many buttons as the 
mouse on the server has; clicking one of the extra buttons just results in an error.  
I verified this with 'xte' from the 'xautomation' package; running xte and typing 
'mouseclick 6' simulates clicking the extra button on the mouse, and resulted in the 
same error.  Since my client machine was a laptop with a touchpad, what I did was to 
enable the "horizontal scrolling" feature in Gnome's Mouse Preferences panel, then 
use the horizontal scroll feature for a second.  This seems to have persuaded my 
client X Server that it now has lots of mouse buttons, and I can somewhat reliably 
use my extra mouse buttons through synergy.

HTH

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