synergy-core

No one has mentioned ShareMouse yet? (https://www.sharemouse.com/) In my experience it has worked way better than Synergy. I switched after getting fed up with the synergy developers not responding to various multi-year old bugs that made the software unworkable for me (e.g. https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/5992). The only downside is that you have to "renew maintenance" to continue receiving updates to ShareMouse after a year. But I haven't done that yet and it still works fine for me.

Synergy is open core, these portions are licensed as GPL: https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/#License-1-ov-file There is an open source fork that branches off version 1.9: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier#what-is-it

I literally just recently had to switch a brand-new Ubuntu installation to X11 because Synergy/Barrier wasn't working in Wayland mode [0]. Until Wayland gets its head in the game, I'm staying on X11 for as long as possible. [0]: https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/4090

This sounds like what Symless does with Synergy[1]. Or did -- now the repo is named "synergy-core", so they are likely also using an "open core" model now. [1]: https://github.com/symless/synergy-core

This is indeed cool. A lazier and less efficient solution for those that don't want to take apart the computer is synergy (https://symless.com/synergy and https://github.com/symless/synergy-core) which lets you share keyboard/mouse and clipboard over multiple computers.

Very nice! Maybe look at Synergy for mouse/keyboard/stylus sharing between devices: https://github.com/symless/synergy-core

This is one of those brilliant things that seems obvious in retrospect. Sweet hack! See also: https://github.com/symless/synergy-core (share one mouse/kb across multiple computers with their own displays via network)

Why has this 3+ year old issue continued to be ignored https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/2905 I bought Synergy when I need to work with a windows and mac (Mac being my primary driver) and it made my mac unusable. I used to love Synergy but this made it useless for me and I had to get a refund.

Yep I left after the v2 beta nonsense. He locked my account out from the forums when he didn’t like my feedback. ShareMouse is by far a better product. I feel sorry for the employees but it’ll be a good day when symless goes out of business. Here’s a fine example of Nick Bolton addressing a longstanding bug: https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/5226 He deleted a bunch of comments, locked the conversation and then has the audacity to say this a rare issue. I would have gladly helped them debug this issue if he had behaved like an adult.

See the related issue on the repo: https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/3363

I tried synergy, with the hope that I could control a Linux media PC from both Linux and Windows machines. Unfortunately it was too flaky, e.g. control keys never being released (I think it's https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/9 ). These days I use x2x over SSH. I don't use it on Windows, but then again I don't use Windows ;) I have two system services which poll the surrounding WiFi networks: when I'm at home, I can control the media PC by moving off the left of my screen; when I'm at work, I can control a more powerful desktop by moving off the right (the latter goes through some multi-hop reverse SSH tunnels).

FYI synergy is free and oss[1] but I would still recommend paying for it because it's priced fairly and I want to support the development behind it. I think synergy is text-book "how to make money with oss." [1] https://github.com/symless/synergy-core

Synergy [1] https://symless.com/synergy [2] https://github.com/symless/synergy-core