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What model do you use that gave you 2 seconds switching time? One of the mentioned Rextron or something else?

I have some knockoff brand off of Amazon, but it has full HDMI EDID emulation so stuff doesn't move around when switching screens. The input switching is about 2.5 seconds or so. The listing [0] looks scammy, and I thought so too when I bought it, but it works -much- better than the previous unit I had from Tesmart, which had generally good reviews but didn't work at all for my purposes, and it was like 40% of the price. I took the plunge on this one as the Tesmart didn't behave nicely with my thunderbolt docks hanging off my various mac laptops, which was extremely, maddeningly frustrating to not have it work all the time.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088WGKFZH

My "NEWCARE HDMI 2.0b Switch 3 in 1 Out" switcher is that fast.

Can I inquire how you switch inputs (mouse, keyboard) along with the hdmi?

I've found the simplest way is to just use a mouse and keyboard that support bluetooth and RF and just keep the RF dongle on one PC and the bluetooth paired to the other PC. If you're running Windows, Mouse Without Borders is a handy utility and I'm sure there's an equivalent for Linux. I often find myself just using Moonlight streaming as a remote desktop since my tower is a lot more powerful than my laptop.

On linux you can use Barrier / Input Leap. No Wayland support though, still work in progress for unforeseeable future. Can't find any KVM app that works on Wayland yet. RKVM used to work on Wayland but not anymore.

No Wayland support though, still work in progress for unforeseeable future

Linux isn't my daily driver so this might be a dumb question, but what's up with Wayland? I feel like I've been hearing for a solid decade that X is dead yet whenever someone recommends me a piece of software it never works on Wayland. Wayland is fourteen damn years old at this point.

Wayland itself is actually pretty solid right now as long as you're not using nvidia card. In the past, applications that need to interact with other applications (e.g. remote desktop, screen recording, keystroke injection, etc) can't be ported to wayland due the lack of api. Those api now already exist in wayland, but completely different which requires huge effort by application developers to rewrite their app. So right now we're just mostly waiting until those apps finally run on wayland, and nvidia finally stop being buggy on wayland.

Most app developers are dragging their feet when it comes to supporting wayland, but with big distros now shipping wayland by default, the pressure to make sure their apps work in wayland is really high in the past two years. For example, just last week vscode finally fix rendering issues that plagued wayland + nvidia users for years (had to use insiders version with some extra args but at least I can use vscode in wayland now). I think the rate of developers finally adding wayland support in their apps is finally accelerating.

Thanks just ordered one!

I have the https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/aw/d/B078LY741V?psc=1&ref=p...

Please note that I’m having issues with their smart keyboard port, but that may be related to the interaction between the two.

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