Plash VS barrier

Plash - Price: Free Menu bar app for macOS that allows you to create and manage web apps as if they were native apps.

Any monitor I’m not currently using displays a set of prod graphs / monitoring / observability tooling (I use Plash https://sindresorhus.com/plash to load Grafana dashboards as my desktops) — they were hidden in the above photo for NDA reasons.

My free Plash app lets you make any website your desktop wallpaper, which could include videos, visualisations, etc. Some ideas.

I saw your post here about running multiple instances, however I'm running an older build of the app (due to an older OS) so I can't download and run the other builds of Plash with different bundle ID's you've uploaded.

You could use my (free) Plash app for this. Simply make a index.html file with the text you want. Could just be

I use Plash, an app that allows you to overlay a website on your desktop. The website is running locally on my machine and uses a GraphQL API I made for the stats.

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.