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Hrvach/Deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
I recently put something together similar to this, to switch between my personal PopOS/Windows machine and my work Macbook Pro.
I used one of these manual USB switchers, (https://sabrent.com/products/usb-sw30), and connected it's switch to a Raspberry Pi 4B via GPIO (4B is overkill by wanted hardwired network). There's a small separate keyboard (which will later be a macro keypad of some sort), connected to the Pi. Using inputexec (https://github.com/rbarrois/inputexec) to detect keypresses and then firing off a specific script to send a network request to the LG TV I use as a monitor to switch the source, and then set the GPIO connected to the USB switcher to high or low to switch the keyboard/mouse to the other machine.
I can also turn on/off the TV using the same WebOS API (and Wake-on-lan) as used during the source switch. A Kasa smart outlet also gets toggled to turn on/off a BenQ ScreenBar Halo (https://www.benq.com/en-us/lighting/monitor-light.html).
So with 4 different keypresses, I can switch to Work, to Personal, turn off monitor and light, and turn on monitor and light.
deskhop
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Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization
Can't argue it's niche but it's far from uncommon. The BSD licensing allows usage in places allergic to the GPL so you see it (or don't) often used behind the scenes in lots of products.
...and I'm writing this comment on a Lenovo T450s running FreeBSD. Dang can probably verify the user agent of my POST, if he has nothing better to do (pretty sure he does).
The experience is not perfect (just _now_ I'm enjoying fighting with a deskhop (https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop) which isn't seen as a ums pointing device unless another usb mouse is also present, but that's the first problem in months (admittedly it's also the first change in as many months)).
- FLaNK Weekly 08 Jan 2024
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Building a better keyboard and mouse switch
> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop
- Hrvach/Deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
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