I'm using a lot synergy at work to use one keyboard/mouse to control my laptop and my desktop. It's a wonderfull software. Unfortunately, it is buggy in Ubuntu 8.04. So I decided to re-compile and see if it is any better.
First, you need to get the latest cvs tree :
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@synergy2.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/synergy2 co -P synergy
now, go to synergy/src directory and try a ./configure. In my case it ended up like this :
checking for X... no
checking for XTestQueryExtension in -lXtst... no
configure: error: You must have the XTest library to build synergy
After googling everywhere, I finally found this page. So, to get the XTest library, we do :
sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev
Then we need to specify where synergy can get the X include and library files :
./configure -x-includes /usr/include -x-libraries /usr/lib --prefix=/usr
and voila ! The configure process should now be happy. You can then make and make install.
