Mouse Back/Forward and extra buttons don’t work with Synergy

Writing by shivdev on Wednesday, 23 of May , 2012 at 5:45 pm

I Did NOT have this problem when my Synergy Server was on Windows. When I switched my Synergy Server to my Red Hat Linux box, I noticed my Back/Forward mouse buttons didn’t work.

After searching around for a bit, adding the following lines to your synergy.conf file fixed this.

$ sudo vi /etc/synergy.conf

section: options
  mousebutton(6) = keystroke(WWWBack)
  mousebutton(7) = keystroke(WWWForward)
  mousebutton(4) = ;
  mousebutton(5) = ;
end

So with my current setup (sk-win7 <-> sk-redhat <-> sk-ubuntu) with sk-redhat being my Synergy Server, my /etc/synergy.conf looks like:

section: screens
  sk-redhat:
  sk-win7:
  sk-ubuntu:
end

section: aliases
  sk-win7:
  10.4.1.1
end

section: links
  sk-redhat:
    left = sk-win7
    right = sk-ubuntu
  sk-win7:
    right = sk-redhat
  sk-ubuntu:
    left = sk-redhat
end

section: options
  mousebutton(6) = keystroke(WWWBack)
  mousebutton(7) = keystroke(WWWForward)
  mousebutton(4) = ;
  mousebutton(5) = ;
end

After adding this section, I was able to get my mouse back/forward buttons to work on all of my boxes.

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