What's the state of the art for Linux (so Wayland...) if I have one keyboard+mouse on my desk and two physical desktops, each with a monitor? I want to be able to move the mouse cursor from one machine to the other. Ideally, not just vnc. Ideas? Thanks
@hughsie I remember years ago using something called Synergy.
https://symless.com/synergy It worked pretty well afaicr.
@hughsie Have not tried it (yet): https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow
I used waynergy for a while (which is just the client side) but I don't really have the usecase anymore, as using a German keyboard on a Mac (server) and Linux (Client) is just too painful.
@hughsie I haven't poked at the software options lately, but I'd probably just use something like https://www.amazon.ca/Bi-Directional-Switcher-Computers-Keyboard-Compatible/dp/B0F1XQ2DTB?th=1 .
@hughsie You should be able to use Deskflow for this purpose. It's packaged in Fedora and EPEL 10 so it's easy to grab and use.
@hughsie following this thread because honestly my understanding is that it's still a hot mess
Wayland broke all the existing ideas around window sharing, which has been reborn with the help of libei. unfortunately this requires compositor support, so every window manager is different
best of my understanding is the remaining options are: hope deskflow supports your window manager or hope lan-mouse works for your use case
@cold they're both Fedora using GNOME, so fingers crossed. Thanks.
@hughsie
That actually has a program that i forgot the name of. One thing i found was this. https://github.com/sebpardo/synergy
Maybe a starting point.
@hughsie As others have said: deskflow which is now the upstream of synergy and has some dev efforts behind it.
synergy was forked into barrier which was forked into input-leap which was forked into deskflow to become the upstream of synergy, full circle :)
Any issues you'll find, deskflow is where they'll get fixed first.
Deskflow was exactly what I was looking for and solves my problem almost perfectly. Thanks all!
