synergy these days has been replaced for most serious use by barrier, due to the restrictive synergy license and costs.

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

I actually clicked on this thread for the purpose of commenting that you could do cool things with some combination of this, using spare screen/tablet devices, and Barrier. But you beat me to mentioning the concept.

Thanks! I mentioned Synergy as I've used it many years ago and was not aware of license change implications (that's why I linked to the open-source repo). Good to know there's a good fork.

Cool! Thank you for coming here :)

Synergy never ceases to amaze me in that these few bugs that have been around for years make it a completely broken product for me. Regret paying them.

I had a similar experience after purchasing a license. Admittedly a few years back now, but I seemed to encounter issues that would strike at the most inopportune time. I eventually moved to an RDP based setup and haven't looked back.

For Windows only there exists Mouse without border [0] which works a lot better than synergy, including sharing of the clipboard. Of course not usable if you have different systems, but for Windows there is no better solution I'm aware of.

[0] https://aka.ms/MouseWithOutBorders

Beware, once you install Synergy on Mac, there seems to be no way to uninstall.

Hey, thanks!

I'll check that out.

Or Barrier: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

Its a fork from Synergy 1.9

Barrier is available in the standard Ubuntu and Debian repos too.