i've been using synergy lately to share a keyboard and mouse between a linux box and my macbook. for whatever reason, synergy was crashing in daemon mode and i really hated keeping a terminal window open just to keep it running. so, with the help of lingon and launchd, i devised a nice solution that causes synergyc to launch in the background every time i login.
all you have to do is place the following snippet in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.sourceforge.synergy2.synergyc.plist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>net.sourceforge.synergy2.synergyc</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/opt/local/bin/synergyc</string> <string>-f</string> <string>-n</string> <string>macbook</string> <string>SERVER_HOSTNAME</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> </dict> </plist>
Be sure to replace SERVER_HOSTNAME with the hostname of your server, modify the path to synergyc for your installation and delete or change the -n and the macbook to reflect your synergy configuration.