There's a slightly different approach with a similar outcome: sharing the keyboard and mouse between two machines.
Software used to be called Synergy, but that went commercial, so there's a fork called barrier. https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
Software used to be called Synergy, but that went commercial, so there's a fork called barrier. https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
Pay $29 once or use open source software with 600 open GitHub issues... :D
Besides being OS, what are the advantages of Barrier? Worth the (probably small amount of) time to switch?
Barrier worked fine for my multi-OS use case (Windows, MacOS, various Linux distros).
For some reason, I had to restart Barrier periodically when I was on mesh wifi (by Vilo), but when I switched to a different wifi AP (Starlink's actually) Barrier worked consistently.
Wow that sounds handy indeed.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=354...
The only issue I really have now is once in a while I can't use my keyboard on the client computer(s), and that is because my server is currently my work Mac, and the terminal will occasionally request secure lock (probably when I use sudo) and as part of that, the keyboard is not allowed to be accessed by programs like Synergy until the lock is released. But Mac gets kinda buggy once in a while and doesn't properly release the lock.
Most of the time it just works though, and I've gotten way more than my $30 worth at this point.
It looks like input-leap has drag-drop in the works, but apart from that I have no clue which one is the blessed one right now.
"The name debauchee is not professional and should not be associated to a popular project."
From the github thread linked above. How disgraceful.
It works for me across a laptop and an RPI.
Or if you're using Wayland, I'm sure they have an even better solution that has been around for negative three months already. :)
I have used Mouse Without Borders across work and personal Windows machines -- mostly works with occassional quirks. I think there is some latency though when mouse input is routed through another PC.