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Cant believe I am only learning about this now. Darn - I've needed this for over a decade. Also, havent heard Full Sail in a really long time... Had a friend f

Cant believe I am only learning about this now. Darn - I've needed this for over a decade. Also, havent heard Full Sail in a really long time... Had a friend from growing up that went there and became famous... THanks for the link - Ill be installing this around my place today :-)

dsr_ 3y ago
https://github.com/debauchee/barrier https://github.com/debauchee/barrier is the still-open fork.
- hijinks 3y ago
  barrier is basically a dead project now. The active members of the project forked it and are going to release when ready but https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap Keep an eye on that for anything new
  - apitman 3y ago
    How much ongoing development is needed for something like this? I've been using synergy/barrier for years and the features I need have changed barely if at all during that time. Seems like a prime candidate for "finished" software.
    - ryukafalz 3y ago
      Barrier doesn't support Wayland, which is a pretty big missing piece at the moment for Linux users.
      - bryanlarsen 3y ago
        I use "lan-mouse" on Wayland.
        realjhol 3y ago
        [dead]
    - ytjohn 3y ago
      Mostly finished. However, these software take advantage of the accessibility features of each OS to emulate mouse and keyboard input. Clipboard access is also required. So as each OS changes the requirements to access those features, someone has to keep updating the software for that. Synergy doesn't work on Wayland, so I can't use it on Fedora anymore (unless I switch it back to X). There's always new feature requests. Drag and Drop files is a common one. I personally think that's scope creep, but I can see the appeal. Synergy and barrier already establish an encrypted connection between machines, so copying a file seems a good fit. At very least a "Synergy send to ${computer}" share/send to option would make sense. Here's Synergy's roadmap, and since Synergy and Barrier are the commercial/open-source fork of the same ancestor, Barrier probably has received similiar requests over time. https://symless.com/synergy/roadmap https://symless.com/synergy/roadmap

dsr_ 3y ago

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier https://github.com/debauchee/barrier is the still-open fork.

hijinks 3y ago
barrier is basically a dead project now. The active members of the project forked it and are going to release when ready but https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap Keep an eye on that for anything new
- apitman 3y ago
  How much ongoing development is needed for something like this? I've been using synergy/barrier for years and the features I need have changed barely if at all during that time. Seems like a prime candidate for "finished" software.
  - ryukafalz 3y ago
    Barrier doesn't support Wayland, which is a pretty big missing piece at the moment for Linux users.
    - bryanlarsen 3y ago
      I use "lan-mouse" on Wayland.
      - realjhol 3y ago
        [dead]
  - ytjohn 3y ago
    Mostly finished. However, these software take advantage of the accessibility features of each OS to emulate mouse and keyboard input. Clipboard access is also required. So as each OS changes the requirements to access those features, someone has to keep updating the software for that. Synergy doesn't work on Wayland, so I can't use it on Fedora anymore (unless I switch it back to X). There's always new feature requests. Drag and Drop files is a common one. I personally think that's scope creep, but I can see the appeal. Synergy and barrier already establish an encrypted connection between machines, so copying a file seems a good fit. At very least a "Synergy send to ${computer}" share/send to option would make sense. Here's Synergy's roadmap, and since Synergy and Barrier are the commercial/open-source fork of the same ancestor, Barrier probably has received similiar requests over time. https://symless.com/synergy/roadmap https://symless.com/synergy/roadmap