Synergy Binaries, Big Sur, Accessibility Settings dialog impassible

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The build bot here for synergy binaries is great:

https://github.com/DEAKSoftware/Synergy-Binaries

When updating to Big Sur, I couldn't get the new binaries to work. It would repeatably pop up Open Accessibility settings in Security and Privacy or Deny when trying to double click on the application.

I ended up finding this link:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64842819/cant-run-app-because-of-permission-in-big-sur

Which lead me to here

https://github.com/wynioux/macOS-GateKeeper-Helper

And I used the self-sign option twice, and remove from quarantine once.

I also used

  pkgutil --check-signature /Applications/Synergy.app

Which before and after reported the same thing.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the package once or twice.

One of the last things I did after the macOS-GateKeeper-Helper script was to:

1. Remove the previous entry in Security & Privacy > Permissions > Accessibility > Synergy
2. Then drag and drop the app in and try again.
3. Or try to run the app again after it is missing from Accessibility's checklist of apps, so it gets populated.

I'm not exactly sure which one did it. I suspect it was the remove from the permissions list and then add by double clicking the app one more time.

For me, I fixed it by going to "Show package contents" on the app bundle, finding the synergy-core binary and then dragging that into the Accessibility list of allowed programs (as well as Synergy.app which may or may not be needed).