Synergy for HTPC control

Synergy. Great app.
Synergy for HTPC control. Great application.

Setup is pretty simple, but the Synergy HOWTO on the Ubuntu Community Documentation was pretty horrendous. I decided I'd give back a little and did a major clean up/rewrite of it and now it is actually usable.

The one technical contribution I made was to speed up the X/GDM scripts slightly. Instead of:

/usr/bin/killall synergys
sleep 1
/usr/bin/synergys

It is now:

/usr/bin/killall synergys
while [ $(pgrep -x synergys) ]; do sleep 0.1; done
/usr/bin/synergys

You could say it saves less than a second. Or, you could say it's about a 10x speedup :-)

Now if someone would just write a synergy client for the Android platform I could get rid of Gmote and all it's quirks.