Synergy the ‘@’ and ‘Ω’ bug – work around found!
For the last year I have been using Synergy at work to enable me to use my Ubuntu laptop using the keyboard and mouse connected to my Windows desktop. All worked well until I tried to type the ‘@’ symbol on my laptop, instead I would get a ‘Ω’. Considering the ‘@’ symbol is important in our modern life, this was a real pain.
Searching the web I could find other people with the same problem, but sadly no solution. Until today!
I stumbled across this blog entry on Synergy Problems and Workarounds and I now have the ‘@’ symbol back on my laptop when using Synergy!
The solution is very simple, in a terminal window type the following:-
echo keycode 24 = q Q at at at at | xmodmap -
Brilliant, thanks to Delta Nova!
echo keycode 24 = q Q at at at at | xmodmap -
I’m getting:
xmodmap: unable to open display ”
What distribution are you using?
Paul,
I got the same error when running it from a ssh session however when running the command in an open session on the client it worked fine. I am running Ubuntu 9.04
yeah, it’d due to the DISPLAY var not being set properly, try: echo keycode 24 = q Q at at at at | DISPLAY=:0 xmodmap -@Paul