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Created October 11, 2025 13:02 — forked from f1yn/enable_gdm_synergy_not_a_script.md
Enable Synergy (correctly) at login on any Linux using GDM3

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Synergy on Linux - It's great when it works, but it's also a pain because most guides are intended for Ubuntu 18, which is absolutely useless now. Here is how I was able to setup Synergy at login on a Pop_OS 22.04, but should ALSO work for ANY distribution using GDM3 as it's login manager (i.e Fedora and/or Ubuntu).

Step 1

Install synergy. Make sure that synergyc is installed first (included in deb or rpm)

Step 2