[ubuntu] Autostart Synergy w/ Sudo

[wedgiey1]

Help! I'm in BRAND new to Ubuntu. I decided to try it out on my secondary machine because windows needed a format. I used multiplicity before and saw that Synergy does the same thing. There is a bug with Synergy and the newest Ubuntu (8.0.4?) that causes so much lag it renders Synergy un-usable. The work-around to this is to run the synergy client (synergyc) with 'sudo'.

I follow the autostart directions exactly and it works (with lots of lag). The instructions say to use this script (/etc/X11/Xsession.d/85synergyc):

/usr/bin/killall synergyc
sleep 1
/usr/bin/synergyc <HOST NAME>

This works, but with the lag as mentioned above. I tried changing it to:

/usr/bin/killall synergyc
sleep 1
sudo /usr/bin/synergyc <HOST NAME>

&

/usr/bin/killall synergyc
sleep 1
/usr/bin/sudo synergyc <HOST NAME>

I'm sure these attempts are laughable because neither worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Signed,
Linux Newb,
Wedgiey1

[swoll1980]

when I want to autostart I go to system>preferences>sessions then create new then add the program that I want to autostart for sudo add a gksu then a space then the program path

[wedgiey1]

I looked into this too; is there a way to make it run as the root that way?

[swoll1980]

gksu then a space then path to program

[wedgiey1]

I'll try this; to make certain though, do I run the "85synergyc" that I created? Or just the 'synergyc' command? And can I add arguments to the end of it? Lol, sorry for all the dumb questions, but this is all very new to me.

[swoll1980]

if the script you created opens the program just point the path to the script if you need to run the script and then open the program I think you put one of these (>) in between them like /path/to/script>/path/to/program don't quote me on that though