Make it happen

Lately I’ve been using my macbook and imac side by side with one shared keyboard and mouse using Synergy. It works an absolute treat. However, I am bored of typing in commands in Terminal to get Synergy going so I’ve made my first shell scripts to allow my usual double clicking behaviour.

I’ve used Textmate to make two files, synergys.sh and synergyc.sh.

To start the server on the imac:
#!/bin/bash

echo "Starting synergy server"
/Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergys -f --config /Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergy.conf

To start the client on the macbook:
#!/bin/bash

echo "Starting synergy client"
/Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergyc -f computername

and don’t forget to make it executable:
chmod +x filename.sh

and/or if you want it to be double clickable just rename the script to filename.command

Thanks d3vo for the pointers!