The only thing missing for me (and many others) is Wayland support.<p>So please, if someone reads this that wants to hack on that, please do!<p><a href="https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109</a>
I started to use barrier a few days ago, and one problem arose almost immediately: the lack of support for AltGr key, which a lot of non us keyboards rely on for special characters. In my case, I can't type a # or @ using barrier, making it barely usable...<p><a href="https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/100" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/100</a>
I love Barrier. I have a PC as my main machine with my keyboard and mouse and then I have my MacBook to the side. I find Barrier so smooth that it honestly is just like the MacBook is just another screen. My only gripe is that the copy paste between the PC and MacBook seems to only work one way some days and sometimes not at all.
I just installed barrier server on my raspberry pi and set up hotkeys to switch between 3 machines to send the input to, there is also an option to have the mouse continue out of the screen into the next screen monitor on a different computer which could be clever if using multiple monitors.
I can run an ssh server and serve rdp from localhost. It's free and reasonably secure.<p>Why would I use Barrier instead?<p>People use Dropbox instead of sshfs, so I bet there is a reason. I just don't see it.
I made something similar as a toy project after being frustrated with Synergy/Barriers poor support for my keyboard layout (Czech).<p>It's for Linux only as it relies on udev and the encryption (AES with a key derived from a password shared between clients and server) is not ideal, but it was a fun project for sure.<p><a href="https://github.com/htrefil/kshare" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/htrefil/kshare</a>
I've been using Synergy[0] in the past, but I eliminated the use-case for me. Only have one machine on my desk nowadays.
It's commercial but works like a charm.<p>This here looks very promising, but since I already have a license and no more use-case I'm a bit bummed I can't/won't check it out..<p>[0] - <a href="https://symless.com/synergy" rel="nofollow">https://symless.com/synergy</a>