Version: (using KDE 4.1.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages I have my top left and right screen corners mapped to display desktop grid and present windows respectively. These screen corners work flawlessly if I use the mouse connected directly to the computer. However, I have two computers, and use Synergy to control them both with one keyboard and mouse. When controlling the machine with the keyboard and mouse connected to the Synergy server, the screen corners do nothing. They continue to work with the mouse connected to the machine when synergyc is running, just not the mouse connected to the synergy server machine. FWIW I'm using Synergy client 1.3.1, and on the server I've tried Synergy server 1.3.1 in both Windows XP SP2 and Kubuntu 8.04.1 w/ KDE 4.1 (using QuickSynergy on the Kubuntu machine). If I reverse the machines, using the other machine as the server and vice-versa, the same thing happens on the other side, when Kubuntu is running. This is not an issue with Gnome or Xfce using Compiz-Fusion 0.7.4 or 0.7.6. Have not tried KDE 4.1 with Compiz-Fusion, seemed redundant.
More a CANTFIX than a WONTFIX. Only one application can have the screen corners. Synergy is to my knowledge completely unmaintained, so we cannot do anything to fix Synergy or to make it work better with KWin.
Synergy is actively maintained and even funded now: http://synergy-foss.org/ Could this bug be fixed somehow?
Does this work with activation time set to 0? Eventually with kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows --key ElectricBorderPushbackPixels 0 qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin reconfigure
*** Bug 321259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Enabling this setting causes a weird effect: The effect is now triggered but after some milliseconds (while the animation is still in progress), the screen is reverted to the nomal desktop before the effect was triggered. Looks really weird... 8-0
Is setting ElectricBorderPushbackPixels to 0 the crucial one or does already lowering the activation time cause the effect to be triggered? Try raising the reactivation delay (1 second max in the GUI but i don't think the value is capped) - it should impact /when/ the effect is exited (or you just move the mouse out of the corner before it strikes)
Nope, actually nothing makes the borders "catch" the mouse except "ElectricBorderPushbackPixels 0" which leads to the odd behaviour described above.
I just need to point out that my Wayland branches should support that ;-)
Yes, it means that synergy does not support XWarpPointer. -> Please bug them to add support for it (to get this working on X11) The setting about the re-activation timer was never meant to be suggested to change sth. about the activation, but raising it should resolve you from the "weird" behavior of the no pushback activation (getting you more time to move the cursor out of the corner after activation)