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There's a blog post about a similar thing but without any extra hardware. It uses barrier and a few simple scripts. (monitor does have to support switching via

by dizhn 3y ago

There's a blog post about a similar thing but without any extra hardware. It uses barrier and a few simple scripts. (monitor does have to support switching via dcc). It's not perfect especially since the input switching for the display is quite slow but there's leg in hardware kvms too. https://xpufx.com/posts/hundred-percent-software-kvm-switch/ https://xpufx.com/posts/hundred-percent-software-kvm-switch/

liftm 3y ago
My monitor doesn't have dcc. I've worked around that part by activating automatic input selection and xset dpms force off'ing on the device I want to switch away from.
fiddyschmitt 3y ago
Yes Barrier is very nice. I would use it except for the fact that my work laptop is VPN'd and therefore on a different network to my home LAN.
- PinkSheep 3y ago
  You can override the default route of the VPN for the LAN.
- 0lde 3y ago
  Barrier uses all IPs, so I use it with my VPN active but via my cross over cable at the library. If my USB WLAN devices supported ad Hoc mode, it would be over a permanent wireless link between the thinkpads.
fud101 3y ago
I'm using this solution atm. Works quite well except the barrier server on Linux is buggy and I need to frequently restart it.
- dizhn 3y ago
  Some ex barrier people cloned (as opposed to forking) the barrier repo and are continuing development on it. It's called input-leap.
  - fud101 3y ago
    yeah, but even they recommend using barrier right? It's strange situation where the maintainers left the project to work on a project without users. It makes sense from a developer perspective though.
    - dizhn 3y ago
      I had the opposite impression. They were frustrated that the project owner was not responsive enough but also unwilling to hand over the project. Frankly it looked like a hostileish take over attempt but they don't seem to have any visibility so it didn't seem to have worked. At least a year or so ago it looked like that.

by dizhn 3y ago

liftm 3y ago

My monitor doesn't have dcc. I've worked around that part by activating automatic input selection and xset dpms force off'ing on the device I want to switch away from.

fiddyschmitt 3y ago

Yes Barrier is very nice. I would use it except for the fact that my work laptop is VPN'd and therefore on a different network to my home LAN.

PinkSheep 3y ago
You can override the default route of the VPN for the LAN.
0lde 3y ago
Barrier uses all IPs, so I use it with my VPN active but via my cross over cable at the library. If my USB WLAN devices supported ad Hoc mode, it would be over a permanent wireless link between the thinkpads.

fud101 3y ago

I'm using this solution atm. Works quite well except the barrier server on Linux is buggy and I need to frequently restart it.

dizhn 3y ago
Some ex barrier people cloned (as opposed to forking) the barrier repo and are continuing development on it. It's called input-leap.
- fud101 3y ago
  yeah, but even they recommend using barrier right? It's strange situation where the maintainers left the project to work on a project without users. It makes sense from a developer perspective though.
  - dizhn 3y ago
    I had the opposite impression. They were frustrated that the project owner was not responsive enough but also unwilling to hand over the project. Frankly it looked like a hostileish take over attempt but they don't seem to have any visibility so it didn't seem to have worked. At least a year or so ago it looked like that.