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History of the Synergy Project's "Bug #18 - Sticky modifier/meta keys (shift, ctrl, alt)" (now #9)

This is a crude list of stuff the Synergy team has chosen to focus on instead of an extremely old (and still unsolved) bug.

  • (March 2009) "Sticky Meta Keys" bug is logged.

  • (August 2009) Nick says it's their most crticial bug.

  • (October 2010) Nick says the fix will be included in 2.0 (Which never materialized.)

  • (January 2011) Nick says the code requires a rewrite to fix.

  • (September 2011) Nick says he'll take another crack at it in 1.4, otherwise it'll be two years for 2.0 (I wish!)

  • (November 2012) Formed a new company.

  • (July 2013) New website design. ("Response to your feedback" email)

  • (August 2013) Premium helpdesk announced. ("Premium help desk" email)

  • (August 2013) Reverted new website design. ("I've made some mistakes" email)

  • (August 2013) Promised to start working on sticky keys bug (again). ("I've made some mistakes" email)

    Sticky Modifiers promise, August 2013

  • (October 2013) Drag and Drop initial release. ("Synergy 1.4.14 released" email)

  • (November 2013) Accepting Bitcoin donations ("Bitcoin and Synergy" email)

  • (January 2014) Help desk is back! (where did it go?) ("The Synergy Premium help desk is back" email)

  • (May 2014) synergy-foss.org --> synergy-project.org ("New domain name" email)

  • (July 2014) Survey about why people donate. ("Synergy - Why did you donate?" email)

  • (August 2014) Zero-conf feature in v1.6 instead of serious bugs. ("Synergy 1.6" email)

  • (September 2014) Moved into a new office. ("check out Synergy's new office!" email)

  • (September 2014) Switched to paid downloads. ("have some Synergy promo codes" email)

  • (September 2014) Hiring developers. ("please help, we need programmers" email)

  • (September 2014) Visiting California. ("I'm visiting CA in October" email)

  • (October 2014) Switched from SVN to GitHub.

  • (October 2014) Switched from SPIT to GH Issues (screwed up all of the Issue numbers and the links between issues.)

  • (October 2014) After posting this Gist and calling him out on Twitter, Nick:

...So I switched to ShareMouse, and you should probably do that too. ShareMouse is still not quite perfect, but the difference in not having so many daily/hourly/minute-ly annoyances is just huge. The money for a ShareMouse license was so much less of a cost than the pain of using Synergy that I wish I had ditched Synergy much sooner.

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beporter commented Nov 7, 2014

Since I had donated to Synergy in the past and had a Premium account already when Nick decided to switch to paid downloads, I received a number of Synergy download codes. I can't recommend Synergy myself to anyone anymore, so they're no good to me. However, Synergy may still be a great fit for you, and these codes will give you a chance to trial the software before making a monetary commitment.

The only requirement I place on the use of these codes is that if Synergy ends up being at all useful to you, you donate a minimum of $5 to help them continue development. It would also be nice if you posted a comment here when you claim one just to save others some time.

  • 8I3XCT9S
  • 72RDJGEY
  • O8L0ROVB
  • JCJQ80MJ
  • 0KCJ0XZY
  • D5EP4BIY
  • SQSAINZQ

(I make no guarantee about whether these codes have been claimed already or not.)

Visit http://synergy-project.org/download/ to use them. I hope that Synergy works better for you than it did for me. 🙏

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