[kwlug-disc] Single desktop of several devices -- does it exist?

[Mikalai Birukou]

>> I've used (and paid a modest amount for) Synergy for years, but I
>> don't know that it's available for Raspberry Pi. I currently use it on
>> Intel/linux, MacOS (and Windows).  https://symless.com/synergy
> I used synergy too, a long time ago, and it worked pretty well.  It used
> to be fully open source (and was even in Debian, until stretch), but it
> looks like they've close-sourced part of it.  I just found out from its
> wikipedia page[1] that there's an open-source fork of called Barrier[2],
> which is in Debian (package name: barrier), so it's probably available
> in Raspbian too.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_(software)
> [2] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/

[2] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/ looks alive, and says quote: """

Whereas Synergy has moved beyond its goals from the 1.x era, Barrier 
aims to maintain that simplicity.

"""