KasmVNC VS barrier

Not exactly the same thing, but I had good experience with KasmVNC.

Despite having VNC in its name, it isn't fully compliant with the VNC protocol and doesn't support regular VNC clients. Instead, it exposes a web client that you can access to connect to the machine. It also felt surprisingly snappy and nice to use compared to my previous experiences with regular VNC.

https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC

This may help: https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC/issues/124

KasmVNC is a standalone project that gets embedded into the above images. https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC

- KasmVNC is a standalone open source project that powers the container steaming portion of workspaces - meaning the rendering of the container GUI environment and the keyboard/mouse interaction. KasmVNC can be used in containers, VMs or hardware. It is GPL2. https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC

KasmVNC Details kasmvncserver_jammy_1.1.0_amd64.deb

The rendering for container sessions is powered by our independent open-source project KasmVNC . Here is a video on some of the improvements to the streaming tech we've made in recent months. It shows an example of how performant it can be

** Tutorial: ** https://medium.com/@matthew.mcclaskey/docker-container-ui-streaming-doom-2b8e453a23a6 ** Kasmvnc: ** https://github.com/kasmtech/kasmvnc

- https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC

For software KVM you can use https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

I use it between a Windows PC & a Macbookpro (Linux version available but I don't have Linux)

libei looks useful. But IDK why libei is necessary to run Barrier with Wayland?

For client systems, couldn't there just be a virtual /dev/inputXYZ that Barrier forwards events through

And for host systems, it looks like xev only logs input events when the window is focused.

Is xeyes still broken on Wayland, and how to fix it so that it would work with Barrier?

With Barrier, when the mouse cursor reaches a screen boundary, the keyboard and mouse input are then passed to a different X session on another box until the cursor again crosses a screen boundary rule.

Barrier is a fork of Synergy's open core: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

libei:

I have a similar gaming/WFH setup (2 monitors at 1440p 144hz) and I’ve been using Barrier instead of a physical kvm, and it works really well. Not sure if you’re open to a software kvm but if you are, I’m happy to answer any questions about it if you have any.

Have you tried Barrier? I casually used it to swap between my main rig and my MBP. Took a minute to get it setup but once I sorted it all out it worked pretty well. It has some settings and tweaks built in to address some of the layout issues you mentioned...

Barrier appears to handle PC switching only for the keyboard and mouse.

Sorry, probably not entirely on topic and can't answer anything reliable about the multimonitor stuff, but a tip regarding the 2 mice and 2 keyboards for the 2 different computers: use this: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier It's oss multi-os software that lets you use one mouse and keyboard (server) on several PCs (clients) easily over your LAN.

Barrier is a free and open source alternative.