I want to share my desktop mouse and keyboard with my laptop using synergy. Until yesterday, both ran Ubuntu 14.04 and synergy 1.4, and everything worked fine.
Yesterday, I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 16.04, and apparently this one ships with synergy 1.6. As a result, it has now become impossible to share my keyboard and mouse, as synergy complains about incompatible versions. However, I have not found a clean way of either downgrading synergy 1.6 on Ubuntu 16.04, or upgrading synergy 1.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.
Is there a clean way to use synergy between Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 computers? I do not want to upgrade my desktop to Ubuntu 16.04 just yet.
Best Answer
I run into the same problem this weekend, the solution I found was upgrading Synergy on my Xubuntu 14.04 following this steps.
It actually updated from 1.4 to 1.7.6, and turning off the Encryption option on both "Server"(Xubuntu 14.04 with Synergy 1.7.6) and "Client" (Ubuntu 16.04 with Synergy 1.6.2) I was able to connect and use it again.
The strange part for me was that I didn't remember the option to register the app... I need to check this later again.