ErikIMH - just another linux admin's blog

The newer Linux versions of the popular mouse/keyboard sharing application “synergy” now has built in encryption.
Here’s how to configure it:
Just simply passing the –enable-crypto flag on your synergy server without having a proper SSL certificate will result in the inability to connect to clients and generate an error message similar to this in your syslog:...

I recently purchased a new keyboard and updated to the latest Ubuntu, I’m also an avid user of the number pad for quick input when dealing with spreadsheets or accounting.
I found that my num pad’s delete key (“.”) was outputting a comma (“,”) instead. Pretty annoying? I agree, but this can be very easily fixed with the following command:...

Wayland is intended as a “simpler replacement for X”, and is getting quite a bit of hype around the Linux community. So much so, that it’s the default in the latest versions of Fedora, GNOME, KDE and others.
While Wayland may be the future, it really is in future. At least for Ubuntu 17.10. The issue here is that a number of Linux desktop applications still depend on X.Org (such as synergy and screencloud). They don’t support Wayland very well at all....

After recently upgrading my Dell XPS 13 w/Touchscreen to Fedora 26, the touchpad suddenly stopped working upon resuming from sleep mode. It was reproduced 100% of the time, and required a complete restart in order to get the touchpad working again.
There have been several forum posts and bug reports regarding others experiencing these exact same symptoms, so I figured I’d share a hacky workaround until the bug is fixed upstream....