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Total aside.

Has anyone found an alternative to Synergy? Its the last thing that's anchoring me to X11.

The Synergy team has been saying for years they'll support Wayland but no release has been made, I'm a paid customer.

IIRC by design applications can't get the absolute mouse pointer position in wayland, so something like Synergy probably is not easy to do in Wayland without 'hacks'.

Isn't that something libei is designed to solve?

Have never heard of it, but seems like it should solve that

Do any Synergy forks like Barrier do it?

Barrier was abandoned and no contributions are made IIRC.

The closest I’ve found in terms of description is https://github.com/feschber/lan-mouse, but the lack of encryption on the connection has discouraged me from using it.

I’m also a paid Synergy user, and it’s frankly comedic how long Wayland support has been on their road map. I’m not convinced it’s ever coming, which means I’m probably only 1-2 distro updates from being forced to use something else

I'm in the same boat.

Synergy core (aka synergy 1) just had Wayland support merged this week. “Next year” has finally come to pass

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