I really want to use Wayland, but the lack of a Wayland-based KVM sharing tool is an absolute deal breaker for me. I tried so many of them, but none worked. Waynergy looks alright, but it’s only a client. rkvm didn’t work at all and I don’t remember the names of the other tools I tried. I know that Input Leap/Barrier has met their donation goal for Wayland support, but I am not holding my breath that it’ll work with wlr.

Has anyone gotten KVM sharing to work with a Wayland host and other Linux clients?

    • DARbarian@artemis.camp
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      1 year ago

      Shit I’m gonna have to keep an eye on this. If he adds MacOS support, it sounds like my perfect solution.

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      1 year ago

      Another thing for me is transparency blur in composition.

      I need my KVM of choice to run on windows, Mac and Linux.

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    1 year ago

    Erm… Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t the point of KVM is to be a hardware solution so you’re not dependent on whatever crap is running on the machine? Just buy a KVM box or DIY yourself, problem solved.

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      1 year ago

      No, with Barrier I can use one set of keyboard/mouse seamlessly on multiple machines. I don’t want to manually switch. I just want to drag the mouse across and the clipboard works too.

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      Experience on barrier is much nicer and smoother than on a KVM switch

      For instance, you have a PC and a laptop, you can drag the mouse off the left side of the monitor onto the laptop and use the mouse/kB there seamlessly

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    In the issue (down the threads), there is a comment saying it is working in Wayland. But user has to compile other libraries also.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I know. And from what I read, it won’t work with wlroots, which means it won’t work for me.

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    1 year ago

    Desperately searching for this myself. Only thing I found was Waynergy on Github, but that requires LibreSSL so no dice.

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      Waynergy advertises itself as a client only, so it’s not an option for me either.