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the only remaining question is, how is security?
It's the clipboard, you shouldn't put secure items on the clipboard generally speaking. (We all do it anyway)
that too, but not just that. how does access control work, how is memory safety around the receiving and authenticating code, is the traffic encrypted and how..because keystrokes, and I think mouse actions are also sensitive
No, password managers are best practice.
Password managers are the bees knees if you have to use a password, I do like the authenticator only logins especially if you have an obnoxious number of sites you have to login to. I will say though, that clipboards are tricky especially in an environment where VNC/Screen Connect etc are actively used. Screen Connect especially will happily grab the clipboard contents and share it with the other user.
Probably shouldn't use software that will remotely log and upload things that you store to your keyboard. Should have a policy against that.
Does it work with Wayland? That was my only complaint with Barrier last time I tried to use it.
Thanks for this, I was wondering why I couldn't get barrier to work properly
I use input leap and it works flowlessly with Wayland. One PC has KDE and another GNOME 47. Even through tailscale tunnel
Wayland support: Experimental support in Deskflow v1.16 (required >= GNOME 46 or KDE Plasma 6.1).
I've been using barrier, but will give this a try. Thanks!
I am using barrier for years too, I'll check this one
Looks like it's also a variant of Synergy, so I guess it's just the same. There's a lot of different forks of it, I'm not sure which one is the 'best' these days.
Not a variant. Read their README. It IS Synergy, they're renaming the open-source / community version to that, while Synergy will remain the commercial product built out of that.
Yeah, again, I saw this, there is multiple fork... I'm still using the latest 2.4.0 from 2021, I'll see if it's compatible.
Barrier has been abandoned quite awhile ago. Its successor is supposed to be InputLeap, and although their GitHub repo is very active, they have yet to make a release.
I didn't even know that Synergy provided a "community" version of their app until very recently. I've paid for a license many years ago, so I've been using their 1.1x versions, which for better or worse, are still maintained along with the 3.x branch (which I've tried using but could never make it work, which is for the best because the fact they pivoted their UI to electron-based also left a bad taste in my mouth).
Edit: also, if I understand correctly, Synergy's latest versions on the 1.x branch borrows a lot from InputLeap.