Remember x2vnc and win2vnc? What can I use now? [possibly solved] (sh.itjust.works)

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Basically title. I want to control a bare metal debian machine on a separate monitor (that always has this debian machine) from my windows gaming machine.

Edit: it's called Synergy and the apt package is called deskflow. I'll try it later and see if I can make it work.

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[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I want to sit at my windows machine with it's three monitors and move my mouse to a fourth monitor of a Linux machine. x2vnc was great for controlling multiple *nix boxes and win2vnc did exactly what I want to do now but it hasn't been updated for 5 years.

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

I don't know if it's still relevant, but I used to use Synergy to do this.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes, that looks like it. Account? WTF?

edit: dingdingding! This is the thing. it's called deskflow in apt

Thanks, drspod

[-] rice@lemmy.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yea that's their new project they just "started funding". Synergy used to be open source and it went closed source 10? 15? years ago.

Since then several forks have existed. Most notably https://github.com/debauchee/barrier which died a few years ago and was forked to https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap which while getting plenty of updates, and merges from the other project.. never released a version for years. I think at that point synergy felt sorry for them and so they changed their repo name from synergy to deskflow https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow and now they have their open source version lol

I have to assume usage got so stagnant when close sourcing it (it's so insanely niche software, is it not?) that they felt the need to bring it alive again.

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