[HN Gopher] Barrier: Share mouse and keyboard between computers
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Barrier: Share mouse and keyboard between computers
Author : some1else
Score : 175 points
Date : 2022-03-11 12:52 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| dukeofdoom wrote:
| I will soon have two macbooks on my desktop in front of me. I
| hope to use the older macbook to run background tasks, like
| uploading videos to youtube and as a third monitor.
|
| I have keychron k1 keyboard and an mx master mouse. Keychron is
| currently connected to the USB hub due to led lights, latency.
| But the keyboard has a battery and can work off of bluetooth.
| Mouse is connected through the tiny dongle that comes with
| logitech mouses. Both Keyboard and Mouse claim to work off
| Bluetooth. Can I use this program to share the keyboard and mouse
| between the two macbooks? Or is using Bluetooth or a kvm switch a
| better option?
| mjlee wrote:
| I think Universal Control (in the current MacOS 12.3 Release
| Candidate, should be public next week) will do what you want.
| weikju wrote:
| "older macbook" might imply that one of the two machines will
| not support UC though
| djrogers wrote:
| Considering that 12.3 is supported on MacBooks going back
| 7+ years, that's not necessarily the case.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| If you are in Windows only environment you can use Mouse wthout
| Borders [0]
|
| Works fine enough on WiFi, supports clipboard sync and file copy
| (but reliable only for small files).
|
| (and if I remember it right I learned about it here in some
| thread about Synergy...)
|
| [0] https://aka.ms/mm
| ddalex wrote:
| How is this different from synergy ?
|
| I used to use Synergy all the time before the computer got so
| powerful that I didn't need multiple computers to drive all the
| monitors and run things in VMs
| sidpatil wrote:
| > How is this different from synergy ?
|
| It's a fork of an older version of Synergy before they changed
| their license.
| marcodiego wrote:
| How does it compare to synergy?
| ck__ wrote:
| is it better than sharemouse?
| ajolly wrote:
| If you are on Windows, check out Input Director instead, in
| particular it works great if you have non rectangular monitor
| configurations.
| greatgib wrote:
| Thanks for sharing, so awesome that someone did the fork of
| synergy to stay oss and free.
|
| I was a big user of synergy 1 and was quite disappointed by the
| takeover that led to the current partially proprietary Synergy.
|
| It was a slide, first "let's have a binary builds for paying
| users to fund the project" then "let's have important features
| only for paid users with a license code needed", then the guys
| goal was to create and develop a company, hiring dev and
| assistants... The original spirit was lost.
|
| This annoyed me a lot based on the fact that it was not the
| original developer of Synergy.
|
| So, for long time I was thinking of doing a fork. And so, I'm
| very grateful that some people did it and had the courage to
| continue it.
| surajs wrote:
| ashayh wrote:
| This monitor with a built in KVM has been working well for me
| https://www.gigabyte.com/Monitor/M27Q
|
| I use two of them with Linux and Mac.
| timetraveller26 wrote:
| I've been using x2x https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x It's really
| old and has it's perks but it works for my setup.
| nyadesu wrote:
| It's pretty good, only thing I'd recommend is to always use wired
| connection, performance using wifi is not very stable
| acthrowthrow123 wrote:
| I wish there support for wired usb, e.g. I have laptop and
| surface go connected via usb-c. Not only should be faster but
| more reliable in case one end point connect to wifi ac and
| another to wifi n on the same router.
| uoaei wrote:
| Any tool that switches screens, too?
|
| Essentially one terminal for _n_ computers, with a hardware or
| software switch between them?
| Jaruzel wrote:
| That would be a KVM. (not the Virtualisation software, but a
| dedicated Keyboard, Video, Mouse switcher). Good ones can be as
| expensive as ~PS200.
| shabble wrote:
| Can be a lot more than that!
|
| I was looking recently and came across
| https://www.aten.com/gb/en/products/kvm/desktop-kvm-
| switches... (and similar in the range)
|
| Switching multiple monitors simultaneously seems to take you
| into a whole new bracket I tend to associate with the
| 15-monitor fintech/daytrader market, with pricepoints to suit
| :(
| muwtyhg wrote:
| There was a post[0] from a couple months ago for a piece of
| software called 'display-switch'[1]. It turns a simple/cheap
| USB switch into a n-computer KVM (however many systems the USB
| switch supports) by detecting the presence of the USB switch
| device on either system and switching the video input of the
| monitors using DDC/CI.
|
| I've been using it for a couple of months and it's been a game
| changer. No more fiddling with monitor menus to switch inputs
| or wondering if the monitor is currently set to one computer or
| the other. You have to make sure your monitors support DDC/CI,
| though.
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29608967 [1]
| https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch
| rcarmo wrote:
| I use this daily between PC and Mac (as well as PC/PC) and it is
| great. Much more stable than Synergy for me, with the only caveat
| that it gets confused if you change monitor setups on the fly.
| jtnag wrote:
| I tried Barriers to share mouse+keyboard between work and private
| laptop in the same wifi. Somehow, I had issues with linking both
| PC.
|
| One of the alternatives is what I use currently - Microsoft
| Garage Mouse Without Borders ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-
| us/download/details.aspx?id=354... ) which suites my needs.
|
| ps. using 5GHz wifi significantly reduces mouse latency.
| zackmorris wrote:
| Barrier looks great, but does anyone know why KVM switches with
| DisplayPort or HDMI are so outrageously expensive? It should just
| be a switch, no complex electronics, so I truly can't figure out
| why any KVM should cost more than say $30-50 US.
|
| I suspect DRM or patents for rent seekers are involved somehow.
| Or maybe they're playing on the naivety of the business community
| towards this stuff. I'd sure like to know, and also if there are
| any low-cost or open source KVMs available.
| banana_giraffe wrote:
| So, I might be missing something, but there are a couple of no-
| name HDMI/USB KVMs on Amazon in your price range (i.e.,
| https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NVKHRRT )
|
| Some of the reviews suggest it acts as a pretty brain dead
| switch, which may cause problems with the OS. I know for a
| while I had a Windows 10 PC's monitor on a remote switch for
| silly reasons. I had to make sure to lock the PC before the
| monitor would turn off, otherwise some combination of
| driver/os/whatever would treat the disappearance of the monitor
| as a resolution change, and all my windows would get squished
| into 640x480. I could see KVMs like this triggering the same
| sort of madness.
| wyager wrote:
| > It should just be a switch, no complex electronics
|
| For any high-bandwidth thing like HDMI, you need to do clock
| recovery and copy over the bitstream at the very least. You
| can't just use relays or whatever. Doing this at 10gbps+ is
| going to cost a bit.
| makomk wrote:
| There are really cheap commodity ICs that can switch HDMI,
| and they're generally purely analog devices that don't bother
| trying to reclock the signal. The real reason is that KVMs
| are specialised devices with a niche market. (Though there
| does seem to have been a bit of a push to integrate limited
| KVM functionality into some monitors lately.)
| wlesieutre wrote:
| How many plugs and unplugs is HDMI rated for? At the prices
| we're talking it would be cheaper for me to build a robot
| that physically swaps cables at the back of my computer.
|
| Of course then Windows gets confused by the lack of monitor
| and rearranges all the windows, so it's not a perfect
| solution.
| spicybright wrote:
| I don't see that much of a reason you can't do a relay to
| "disconnect" one hdmi and plug in another.
|
| The computers would see the HDMI cable/USB cords unplugging
| and re-plugging.
|
| Obviously this can be problematic, but I can't see it being
| that expensive.
| Nextgrid wrote:
| Shielding might be a problem. You need your switching
| circuitry (which is most likely going to be solid state
| rather than individual relays for each line) to be
| equivalent to a good cable in terms of interference,
| crosstalk, etc.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| Even outside of impedence issues, you can't just use relays
| because then every switch is basically an unplug/replug,
| meaning that:
|
| a) the display will flip out and spend multiple seconds re-
| syncing itself, and
|
| b) the sources may take actions such as resizing the
| desktop, switching to the internal display, pausing the
| game, whatever.
|
| Part of the point of a hardware KVM is that it negotiates
| its _own_ connection to all of the devices involved, and
| only changes which signals are passed through at any given
| moment, resulting in instantaneous switchovers.
|
| Now, a multi-input monitor can also do this, but then you
| have to deal with whatever compat issues are involved in
| commanding it to switch over DDC (see for example
| https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch), and it
| typically also won't be as fast as a hardware solution
| since input switching speed isn't a metric most people care
| about when monitor shopping.
| wyager wrote:
| Because mechanical relays have high impedance at HDMI
| frequencies.
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| Yup. A quick search suggests HDMI runs at clock speeds of
| 25MHz to 340MHz. Not running that over a relay! Also HDMI
| is many pins, so you would need a low impedance high pole
| count relay even if it was possible, and such a relay
| plus the device wrapped around it plus some profit margin
| means you're not making it any cheaper.
| bartvk wrote:
| As soon as there's enough volume for someone to design a
| specialized IC (and reference PCB), and it gets produced by
| VIA or TI or whatever, sure, then it's neither a problem
| nor expensive.
| parentheses wrote:
| IMO KVM Switches with display support are luxury items.
|
| Who has 2 computers? People who can afford them.
| dividedbyzero wrote:
| I didn't pay for my second computer, work did.
| ridgered4 wrote:
| It's pretty hard to beat a monitor with multiple inputs
| combined with a cheap USB switch when it comes to price and
| reliability.
|
| If you look up the prices of stand alone hdmi switches on
| amazon though I think the most likely explanation is these are
| now niche products so the price has gone up. Logically a decent
| vga USB KVM + an HDMI switch shouldn't require more cost than
| those two devices prices together.
| mmwelt wrote:
| Would be nice to have an Android client too!
| torton wrote:
| I tried using Barrier in a fairly complex setup (Linux, Windows,
| Mac with all of them being sometimes unavailable). Found some
| annoying UX issues (Windows privileged/login screen kicks the
| mouse back into the original position on a different monitor) and
| more importantly the Linux machine would wedge itself with 100%
| CPU used by Barrier.
|
| This is a nice tool but not yet production ready.
| gigel82 wrote:
| Had the same issue for a while, then moved the "server" to the
| Windows machine and it now works as expected (with the latest
| build at least).
| artificialLimbs wrote:
| Interesting. I used it on Mac/win/Linux trio and it worked
| great except copy paste and when the machines went to sleep, it
| would have to manually be restarted.
| tentacleuno wrote:
| I use this on my laptop and desktop when I bring my laptop into
| my office. It's totally seamless. You tell Barrier where the
| laptop "is" (relative to your monitor array -- just like setting
| up a secondary monitor) and then when you scroll your mouse onto
| your laptop everything is totally seamless. Your mouse and
| keyboard are then used solely for the laptop until you move the
| mouse back onto one of your desktop monitors.
|
| The only bug I experienced was that the Barrier _client_ would
| infinitely connect until you set up where that client "is" (as
| above) on the server. This is a pretty well-known issue at this
| point, but it would be nice if Barrier would say a bit more about
| errors (instead of being stuck on "Barrier is starting...").
| There's a Show Log button in the File menu though which is nice.
| roddux wrote:
| I love the look of this, but haven't been able to find any
| information about latency... It seems to be a local network
| solution? Light on details about how it works, short of reading
| source.
| falcolas wrote:
| Synergy (off which this was forked) experience: On a hardwired
| pair of computers, no perceptible latency at all. On wifi
| connected computers, I'd see the occasional latency spikes
| where things stop moving, but effectively imperceptible the
| rest of the time.
| superkuh wrote:
| I've been using synergy, literally, since the year 2000. I used
| to play a _lot_ of first person shooters and over that time I
| never had a latency issue with using a mouse /keyboard on my
| old computer to play games on my new computers (over ethernet).
| No perceptible difference.
| vermon wrote:
| I've had issues running it over wireless so instead I connect
| the computers with an ethernet cable directly and configure
| static IP's. Haven't had any issues. Luckily my PC has two NICs
| and the laptop uses wifi anyway so the ethernet port is unused.
| jeroenhd wrote:
| You don't strictly need a local network, you could probably get
| it to work across a VPN. As long as you can get a TLS
| connection directly between the two devices.
|
| In my experience the protocol is quite light on the network,
| because this directly influences where the cursor is on your
| screen you probably want to keep latency down as much as
| possible.
| ballenf wrote:
| Anyone else ever wanted multiple cursors and multiple mice on one
| computer? Sometimes I'd rather move my hand to a different mouse
| than drag the cursor across all that screen real estate. Also the
| different pointers would stay put when not in use.
| zamadatix wrote:
| I'm not sure about multiple cursors but for the large screen
| real estate problem some mice have a "precision" button that
| changes the DPI which can be leveraged. The intent is to make
| the DPI much lower while pressed (or toggled depending) but
| many allow you to set what DPI value you want it to use
| directly. This allows you to specify that the mouse will move
| say 4x as fast while you hold the precision button which is a
| lot less hand movement and coordination than switching over to
| another mouse.
|
| Basically manual static acceleration for those that hate
| automatic smooth acceleration but want to occasional move fast
| easily.
|
| Alternatively if you're lucky enough to have reasonably steady
| hands you'd be surprised what you can get used to as a default
| static speed. My multi-monitor setup is over 70 inches
| horizontally but I can get across it in a flick or still move
| pixel by pixel if I want.
| peeters wrote:
| I've done that for paired programming, it was a decade ago, but
| IIRC Xorg made it pretty easy to set up. That said...do not
| recommend :). It's too jarring.
| [deleted]
| Mindless2112 wrote:
| EitherMouse[1] can do multiple pointers on Windows.
|
| [1] https://eithermouse.com/
| rob_c wrote:
| Didn't synergy get there ages ago? Not saying it's not
| impressive, but what is the advantage?
| moffkalast wrote:
| It's free vs. $30-$40 I suppose, but you pay in hours spend
| trying to configure an open source project.
| zanecodes wrote:
| I can't install Barrier on my work laptop for policy reasons, but
| I don't want to buy a KVM, so a project I've been interested in
| building when I have time is porting enough of the
| Barrier/Synergy protocol to the Particle Photon [1] or BeagleBone
| Black [2] I've had lying around for a while, and then configuring
| it to emulate a keyboard and mouse via its USB gadget driver,
| allowing it to control my work laptop over USB.
|
| On the Photon at least, emulating a keyboard and mouse is
| incredibly easy and is baked into the firmware, but implementing
| the Barrier protocol so that it can appear as a client on the
| network and pass on the keyboard/mouse input seems like it's
| going to take some effort.
|
| [1] https://docs.particle.io/photon/ [2]
| https://beagleboard.org/black
| 1MachineElf wrote:
| I would love more projects like this, especially ones that
| utilize the BBB.
|
| Personally I've had the same need (shared keyboard and mouse)
| and same requirement (work policy preventing additional
| software) for many years now so have resorted to using a KM
| switch (no V) bought off eBay.
|
| If you look up "KM switch", the first thing you'll notice is
| that most search engines will automatically assume you meant
| "KVM switch" instead. This is what I believe contributes to the
| highly niche market and niche prices for KM switches. Anything
| under $100 is rare, hence used ones on eBay being the better
| option.
|
| It should be possible to have a series of Atmel 32u4
| microcontrollers acting as a keyboard/mouse devices controlled
| by a single host device over I2C. The problem is that people
| with the skills and people with the motivation haven't
| overlapped in a significant way.
| avidiax wrote:
| The annoying/challenging part is that you need to drive the 2nd
| machine using relative motions, but place the cursor accurately
| and keep track of it. If the 2nd OS skips frames or has
| acceleration, you are pretty quickly implementing a Kalman
| filter.
| zanecodes wrote:
| According to the Particle Photon docs [1] it's actually
| capable of moving the mouse to absolute coordinates, but I
| haven't tried that yet.
|
| [1] https://docs.particle.io/reference/device-
| os/firmware/#movet...
| robocat wrote:
| I recall some touchscreens use USB internally for the touch
| interface. A touchscreen has absolute coordinates, which does
| the trick, compared with the usual mouse/trackpad interfaces.
|
| I remember remote controlling an OS that needed me to install
| absolute touchscreen drivers to work best (probably a VM, but
| maybe Synergy drivers??)
| ridgered4 wrote:
| There are/were standalone off the shelf USB devices that sort
| of did this, minute the network part which I had some interest
| in. I own an old one, but since my main machine is linux it's
| lack of linux drivers made it of dubious usefulness to me. I
| could control a linux machine with it, but the software that
| captures keystrokes/mouse and then sends them off through a
| simulated keyboard/mouse only had Windows/Mac versions.
| maicro wrote:
| https://pikvm.org might be relevant; the BBB and Pi are pretty
| comparable for most purposes, so wouldn't be surprised if that
| code/configured would work with only minimal tweaks on your
| BBB.
| mwexler wrote:
| This still requires a dedicated monitor connection to each box
| with a hardware or source switch, right? Or a screen per device?
| That is, the KVM (in the VGA days) used to switch the mouse,
| keyboard, and video source so a single monitor, keyboard, and
| mouse switches across devices. But barrier doesn't try to solve
| that part, I think.
|
| Modern HDMI KVM hardware switches seem rather expensive; anyone
| found a good way to "switch" the monitors as well as keyboard and
| mouse?
| falcolas wrote:
| There are some monitors which act as a KVM for their USB ports.
| They're rare and hard to find, but they exist.
|
| One (expensive) example: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-
| ultrasharp-30-usb-c-hub...
| vhodges wrote:
| You can switch video inputs using dcc (eg
| https://www.ddcutil.com/) so you could bind a hotkey to do that
| or if Synergy/Barrier/Input-leap can be scripted it could do
| that part too.
|
| There is also a utility that watches for usb device change
| events on a cheap USB keyboard/mouse (no video) switcher that
| does the video automatically, but I had it lock up the usb
| stack on my Linux machine and never really got it to work
| reliably enough.
|
| I use one of the cheap usb KM switches and changing the input
| on the monitor manually. Still kind of sucks, but better than
| nothing.
| 2c2c2c wrote:
| bumped into reading about ddc a couple times this month now.
| does this have support across wide number of monitors? i like
| high refresh rate monitors and want to switch between a
| macbook and windows pc quickly depending on home/work. seems
| like a lot of kvms are going to either choke, not have usbc
| inputs
| vhodges wrote:
| Not an expert in this by any means, but I think all modern
| monitors have support for this (eg brightness controls, etc
| from an applet). Monitors are named, so it supports
| multiple monitors too.
| rambambram wrote:
| Have been using hardware KVM switches (HDMI/USB) from Belkin
| and some unknown brands from AliExpress since years. I don't
| remember the price exactly, but it was way under $100. I even
| contacted the Chinese manufacturer to change the PCB for me (I
| wanted the ports repositioned) and they did a very good and
| quick job for under $300. I'm talking dual computers in this
| case, not more.
| uberduper wrote:
| Modern hdmi (I'd recommend dp versions instead of hdmi) kvm
| switches aren't very expensive. I'm using a 4 machine
| hdmi/keyboard/mouse/usb switch that was <$300. They make dual
| monitor ones too. Tho I just use a cheap hdmi switch for my
| secondary monitor because it doesn't emulate a connection to
| the PC while a different input is selected.
|
| This allows me to extend my active desktop to two monitors, or
| show a different machine on the secondary monitor. I also use
| barrier for this two host configuration.
| [deleted]
| torstenvl wrote:
| I use a multipairing mouse and keyboard (Logitech MX Keys and
| MX Anywhere) and have my personal laptop connect via
| Thunderbolt - DVI and work via HDMI. It means I have to press
| three buttons to switch but it's still pretty convenient,
| without the expense of a dedicated KVM solution.
| durazabu wrote:
| No need for additional hardware. Take two Barrier-connected
| computers, the mouse can travel from one screen to the other.
| When using the keyboard, it inputs on the monitor with the
| mouse focus. Since it's UI based you need a screen per device
| yes.
| taffit wrote:
| Some more modern monitors can also be switched by software. I
| personally use a laptop with an external monitor that is also
| connected to my desktop. Whenever I need to switch from laptop
| to desktop (using Barrier or Mouse without Borders on Windows)
| I then invoke the magic of ControlMyMonitor by the wonderful
| NirSoft [1] using an Autohotkey-shortcut. This way I can share
| my monitor with the desktop and laptop. Sharing the keyboard
| and mouse works with Barrier. I provided some short
| instructions in an SO-answer [2].
|
| [1] https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/control_my_monitor.html [2]
| https://superuser.com/a/1556618/299215
| checker659 wrote:
| Just an FYI for mac users: Universal Control is a native macOS
| alternative to barrier that's about to debut with macOS 12.3
| (currently in beta). As an ex-synergy user, let me just say how
| awesome the implementation is. What's crazy is you can share your
| mouse and keyboard not only between two or more macs but also
| between your mac and an iPad (if you have one, obviously). And
| the latency is crazy unnoticably low (even over wifi).
| thebeardisred wrote:
| I'm assuming though this will be macOS only?
|
| I ask because the best use I had for Synergy was around 20
| years ago: one Linux desktop (my daily driver) and other ones
| for non Linux applications (or ones I didn't want to pollute my
| system with).
|
| Over the years I've used it for Outlook (connecting to
| Exchange), Lotus Notes, Xcode, Adobe tools, etc.
| djrogers wrote:
| MacOS and iPadOS.
| durazabu wrote:
| Barrier has been forked to https://github.com/input-leap/input-
| leap which has a hundred more commits by the same devs.
|
| The name is still barrier though, has anyone more info about this
| fork?
| jasonjayr wrote:
| Isn't barrier a fork of the original synergy2 as well? That
| went closed-source/commercial ?
| wlesieutre wrote:
| Forked from synergy 1.9
| Rebelgecko wrote:
| I don't know if this is still the case, but for a while it
| was both commercial and open source. You could change the
| license check to just "return true" and compile it yourself
| to get things like the SSL plugin. IIRC there was also a
| comment that detailed the algorithm for generating keys, so
| you could come up with one in your own name.
| 0xCMP wrote:
| They have an issue where they explain that they have
| disagreements with how barrier is run and the current owner
| does not want to pass control to them. They are the most active
| recent contributors.
|
| personally I am waiting for them to cut a stable release and
| then try it out.
|
| https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap/issues/1414
| durazabu wrote:
| I see, I am surprised they don't mention the fact that
| barrier doesn't appear in github search [1], most likely
| because it is tagged as a fork.
|
| [1] https://github.com/search?q=barrier
| 0des wrote:
| I only just recently heard about the synergy -> barrier
| transition and got everything dialed in on barrier...
|
| _sigh_. The aristocrats!
| superkuh wrote:
| Barrier and input-leap are nice and all, but they're
| written for only modern OSes using modern library versions
| and language features.
|
| If you want to share a mouse with an OS older than a decade
| or so you'll still have to use the original Synergy 1.x. It
| works on both old machines/OSes (all the way back to the
| 90s) and on the very newest released OSes. Given that, I
| don't really see a need for barrier or input leap. They're
| kind of niche, but it's nice someone's keeping the codebase
| going.
|
| Basically the only reason to use newer forks of synergy is
| if you have an abnormally high DPI screen in your span.
| djrogers wrote:
| > if you have an abnormally high DPI screen in your span.
|
| Like any MacBook Pro post 2015?
| ridgered4 wrote:
| I had a plan to run older period VMs or even period
| hardware to play older PC games, and use something like
| parsec to view them. Unfortunately, despite there being a
| number of desktop streaming solutions available I
| couldn't find any that supported even WindowsXP, much
| less 9x. Windows 7 was about the best I could do.
| finnh wrote:
| But Synergy is now commercial, with a stupid surcharge
| for TLS, so would it make more sense to say "the only
| reason to use synergy is if you're using an old OS and
| don't have hi-DPI screens"?
| superkuh wrote:
| No, you're thinking of the Synergy 2.x codebase. No one
| uses that and it's why Barrier exists. But Synergy 1.x is
| open and free as in freedom.
| finnh wrote:
| Gotcha, thanks. I used to use Synergy 1.x, and it was
| great. Recently returned to the fray and didn't have time
| to build-from-source (or didn't find an easy 1.x
| installer for new OS X) so grumble-grumbled and paid for
| Synergy 2. and expensed it.
| throwaway888abc wrote:
| Thanks, bookmarked. Was using Synergy in past and was great.
| scruple wrote:
| Interesting. I'm a long time Synergy user and recently tried
| Barrier and it simply didn't work. I'm going from a Linux
| server (personal) to a MacOS client (work equipment). Synergy
| has been _mostly_ fine but I have had small problems that I was
| hoping Barrier would clear it up.
|
| Thanks for linking this project, I wouldn't have seen it
| otherwise. Will be giving this a try this afternoon.
| ck__ wrote:
| is it better than sharemouse ?
| lxe wrote:
| I'm using Synergy 1.x. Is this better in any way?
| vintermann wrote:
| Just don't use it on any computer you play online games on. "Anti
| cheat" software tends to freak out on things like this.
| falcolas wrote:
| Only for the rootkit style anti-cheat software.
|
| Personal opinion: Don't put anything that matters, or
| _connections to anything_ that matters, on computers with
| rootkit anti-cheat software installed. Even if the company
| itself is perfectly respectful, there 's too many instances of
| supply chain attacks and attackers loitering on internal
| networks to trust such a vulnerability. At all.
| mijoharas wrote:
| I've been out of the PC gaming scene for a fair while. Which
| anti-cheat software would you describe as the "rootkit anti-
| cheat" software? (and is that all the stuff that doesn't work
| on linux?)
| falcolas wrote:
| To add to the sibling comment:
|
| - Denuvo Anti-cheat (used by Doom Eternal's multiplayer
| mode)
|
| - Vanguard for Valorant
|
| I refer to them as rootkits since they install Ring-0
| kernel modules that are updated outside of your control.
| thoughtpalette wrote:
| CoD has Ricochet:
| https://www.callofduty.com/warzone/ricochet
|
| ESEA for CS:GO: https://play.esea.net/client
|
| I've heard similar ones for Valorant, etc.
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