[HN Gopher] Deskflow - Share a single keyboard and mouse between...
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       Deskflow - Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple
       computers
        
       Author : thushanfernando
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2025-06-23 07:11 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | zeroq wrote:
       | I was positively surprised to see it provides build for Windows!
       | I'm curious how it compares to Mouse without Borders.
        
       | gertrunde wrote:
       | I've used one of the variants of this (barrier) in the past on a
       | very low budget video wall.
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       | 3x3 array of 32"-ish monitors each attached to a raspberry pi, so
       | it was extremely useful to control from a single keyboard/mouse.
       | 
       | It's nice to see it's still going strong, and that they're making
       | efforts to keep the forks/variants aligned.
        
       | princevegeta89 wrote:
       | I think this is a great product overall and many people have had
       | great things to say about it all the time. However, I still felt
       | concerned with possible dependency on the network and the lag
       | that can come out of it.
       | 
       | For that reason, I hooked myself up into Logitech Bolt
       | technology, where you can pair up the same device to up to three
       | devices and switch between them using a dedicated button. It has
       | always worked very well for me.
        
       | indigodaddy wrote:
       | Huh, didn't know about this one. I still use Barrier on metal and
       | share to a Linux
        
       | j1elo wrote:
       | Mere 2 weeks ago, I needed to run 2 PCs with 1 set of
       | mouse+keyboard. I remembered using a great and free little app
       | called Synergy back in the old days, so I ended up in the whole
       | process of (re)discovering Synergy (which now at v3 became a paid
       | app with features I don't need), then its v1 fork Barrier
       | (together with also learning that it is abandoned but nobody had
       | the decency to warn about it in the project page, why people are
       | like that?), and the follow-up Input Leap. What a trip!
       | 
       | All these are addressed in Deskflow README. But I fail to see
       | where it comes from...
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       | is Deskflow a parallel fork that raised simultaneously with
       | Barrier, but now is suddenly gettingmore traction?
       | 
       | How come Synergy itself funds it, which would appear that
       | undermines their commercial offering?
        
         | j1elo wrote:
         | OK this helps a lot to give some perspective:
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         | https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/wiki/History
         | 
         | So Deskflow could be called the current-day evolution of the
         | original Synergy v1! Barrier and Input Leap were forks, but
         | this one is the project that acts as upstream to the company
         | that builds a sellable commercial product based on it.
         | 
         | Now that's clearer, after all pieces of the puzzle fell into
         | place.
        
       | abosley wrote:
       | I've been a paid synergy user for 10? years. Works great for
       | multiple computers + OS scenarios. It does flake out very
       | occasionally. I'll have check deskflow out for some embedded and
       | pi projects I have coming up.
        
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