Synergy on Mavericks (OSX 10.9) and enable assistive devices

Solution 1:

From a terminal:

sudo open /Applications/Synergy.app/Contents/MacOS/Synergy

Then open OSX System Preferences and click Security & Privacy, then click on Privacy and then Accessibility

Check the checkbox on for Terminal and Synergy.

You can then close Synergy and start it again in the background through the terminal:

/Applications/Synergy.app/Contents/MacOS/Synergy &

I expect this will be fixed in the next release (1.4.16 Beta)

Source: http://synergy-foss.org/osqa/questions/1999/error-1410-on-mac-1081

Solution 2:

If it's still not working after rebooting, it seems that Mavericks needs the settings to be "reset" if you've already had this setup before. To get it working again, I had to untick Terminal / Synergy.app, lock, unlock, re-tick Terminal/Synergy.app, lock, then it worked. Now Synergy starts normally without needing the terminal anymore.

Solution 3:

The just-released 1.4.16 Beta version for OS X 10.9 now resolves this issue and allows Synergy to be opened directly rather than requiring sudo.

Note: After installing Synergy-1.4.16 and opening it the first time I had to reboot to get the appropriate Accessibility preference to become available.