Multiplicity Causes Laptop to Wakeup from Standby Way Too Slowly

December 19, 2005 5:54 PM from

I have multiplicty on my laptop. When I leave multiplicity running when I put the laptop to standby mode, I notice that if I wait a few hours before I try to turn it back on, it takes a long time (2 minutes or so) to come out of standby. When I unload multiplicity before I put it on standby, it wakes up very quickly (a few seconds). But if I leave multiplicity on and then go to standby but in just a few minutes wake up the laptop again, it comes up pretty quickly. It's almost as if it's related to how long the laptop was in standby mode. It doesn't make any sense but that's what it seems like. So I'm just unloading it for now.

Another strange thing. If I unload the multiplicity program, I can still connect to it from my main computer. I just can't paste-and-copy. Strange. So there seems to be two processes running. One is responsible for pasting and copying from the clipboard and the other is the actual keyboard and mouse control. So if I disable the copy-and-paste module, I don't have the slow wakeup problem.

I hope this helps get this behavior fixed.

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Reply #1 December 19, 2005 5:57 PM from

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If you want to stop the mouse and keyboard share you want to stop the multiplicity service. The systray icon doesn't do that.

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Reply #2 December 19, 2005 6:08 PM from

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That's what I figured but the problem is with the slow wakeup from standby mode.

Reply #3 December 20, 2005 9:34 AM from

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So I am clear: If you leave it on standby for less than a few hours it responds (wakes up) normally?

Reply #4 December 21, 2005 11:53 AM from

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I have this exact same problem. I share a laptop between two desktops (work and home). Short intervals of sleep wake up quickly. Long sleep intervals cause sleep to last for several minutes. It seems that hitting 'esc' several times while in this state makes the machine wake faster.

Reply #5 December 21, 2005 12:11 PM from

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kengilmer: and closing multipl.exe on the secondary machine makes this restore from sleep quicker again?

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