LAN Mouse is a mouse and keyboard sharing software

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  • lan-mouse

    mouse & keyboard sharing via LAN

  • PowerToys

    Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

  • For sharing a mouse/keyboard between Windows PCs, there is Mouse Without Borders. It's included in PowerToys nowadays.

    https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

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  • rkvm

    Virtual KVM switch for Linux machines

  • You might take some inspiration (or some code) from https://github.com/htrefil/rkvm

    I've used it and it works pretty well, is written in rust, and it has one big advantage - by emulating the keyboard and mouse at the linux evdev layer it avoids touching any of the desktop-specific apis. (It also has encryption, though over TCP so has issues with managing connections. I think your choice of UDP was a good one)

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