<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">  <style></style> </head> <body> <font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>Hi All,</div> <div> </div> <div>I’m about to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 which used LightDM instead of GDM. I use Synergy-FOSS to share my mouse and keyboard in between  several machines, the server is running on the Linux box. I currently use the GDM scripts & before/after hooks to run it:</div> <div> </div> <ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> <li><b>/etc/gdm/Init/Default</b><b>:</b><b> (</b><b>to have it star</b><b>t so it</b><b>’</b><b>s running with GDM </b><b>login screen</b><b>, it runs as root</b><b>)</b></li></span></font> </ul> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">[code start]</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">/usr/bin/killall synergys</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">while<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font>[ $(pgrep -x synergys) ]; do<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font>sleep 0.1; done</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">/usr/bin/synergys --config /etc/synergy.conf</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">[code stop]</span></font></div> <div> </div> <ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> <li><b>/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default</b><b>: </b><b>(</b><b>run after login, this kills the version running as root</b><b>)</b></li></span></font> </ul> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">[code start]</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">/usr/bin/killall synergys</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">while<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font>[ $(pgrep -x synergys) ]; do<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font>sleep 0.1; done</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">[code stop]</span></font></div> <div> </div> <ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> <li><b>/etc/X11/Xsession.d/85synergys</b><b>: </b><b>(</b><b>runs during the user</b><b>’</b><b>s session startup, </b><b>runs it </b><b>as the user</b><b>)</b></li></span></font> </ul> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">[code start]</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">/usr/bin/killall synergys # not sure why this is here, the examples on the net had this, probably a mistake)</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">while<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font>[ $(pgrep -x synergys) ]; do<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font>sleep 0.1; done</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">/usr/bin/synergys --config /etc/synergy.conf</span></font></div> <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">[code stop]</span></font></div> <div> </div> <div>I’m trying to find the equivalent for LightDM but I’m coming up empty handed... can someone please help?</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks,</div> <div>Gabriel</div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br> </span></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>  ________________________________  </u></span></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="gray"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br> <font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;">This email and any attachments are confidential and access to this email or attachment by anyone other than the addressee is unauthorised. 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