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Mavericks handles accessibility on a per-application basis, so instead of enabling assistive devices (option does not even exist) carte-blanche, the app which makes the request shows up in a list in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy where you can enable the access it's looking for.

Synergy, however, makes a check for the old style of assistive devices setting and fails to start.

Update: For those catching up with this issue - Synergy seems to have resolved this with 1.4.17 release.

Also, for those experiencing problems after upgrading, please see James Valero's input below.

Brendonwbrown
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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.

enter image description here 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

BrightIntelDusk
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Andy
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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.

James Valero
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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.

Adam Franco
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