Very Very Very... Delicious

At work and at home I dev on a linux box and run a Windows 7 laptop on the second monitor. Otherwise known as a dual monitor setup.

To make this setup convenient there is a nice like app that allows the two monitors to kinda like talk to each other. Enter Synergy:

http://synergy-foss.org/

Synergy allows the mouse position to be transferred from one screen another as if the second screen is a natural extension of the first.

One other useful thing that Synergy does is to allow the user copy text from one screen, move to the next and paste it into second screen. Sweet.

What is annoying however, is that after an extended time of usage, copy and paste becomes dysfunctional.

This usually happens when copying text from windows to linux.

I found a solution that seems to resolve this issue every time:

1. Copy Text from Windows Screen
2. Move to Linux screen
3. Open Mozilla Thunderbird
4. Create a new message
5. Paste text into the Subject line of the message
6. Copy text from the message line and paste to where ever you please
7. VOILA

As of writing, I'm using Synergy 1.3.1 server (linux) and Synergy 1.3.4 client (windows) and can not confirm if the newest version has resolved this issue yet.

I'll keep you posted.

Update:

[2011-08-04] Updating to the latest Synergy Client (1.3.7, Windows 64-bit) has not seemed to have made any impact.

If anything, it may have reduced the occurence but the issue still exists.

I first raised this issue on googleplus on 5th July 2001 after using it for a week:

https://plus.google.com/112449957764802041428/posts/WaEYC1yiXz9

This issue as far as I can tell is specfically related to Firefox's app tabs.

I haven't seen any mentions about this issue so far, so I thought I'd blog it.

To replicate:

1. Create a new tab for https://plus.google.com/
2. Sign in to google plus
3. Convert tab to app tab
4. Now, sign out of google plus (from within the app tab)
5. Google, creates a new tab to sign you out
6. Now go back to your app tab.
7. VOILA. A lot of your personal data is easily viewable. INCLUDING YOUR CIRCLES!

I've notified Google plus about this in their feedback form but have not seen any changes to the signout behaviour.

Facebook does not exhibit the same issue as it's signout process confines itself within the app tab.

I think this needs to be addressed either by itself (or in conjunction with firefox) before it is released to the public.

My inspiration for the title for this blog comes from here:

http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/wii_console/

I wish to record for posterity the course that led to the creation of Wii, and the background behind its development.

It was an enjoyable read and so inspirational. Read it if you haven't already.

And so in a similar vein, I wish to record my thoughts here. Possibly not for later generations but more so for myself.

Vuong