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In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software
I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don’t believe that they’re a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.
With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland’s technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don’t want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don’t want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn’t think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.
There a synergy/barrier replacement working on Wayland yet?
No?
Then I guess Wayland isn’t ready yet.
Waynergy works for me.
https://github.com/r-c-f/waynergy
I haven’t tried it yet because it appears to be a client, and my Linux machine is the synergy server in my setup (work windows laptop is the client).
Ah, yep, that pretty much kills that. Well, one day.
Yup. I got nothing against Wayland, but been waiting on this particular use case to get tooling for years now.
rerequisites
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In my case, a ‘uinput’ group is created, and a udev rule is used to modify the permissions appropriately:
/etc/udev/rules.d/49-input.rules, in my case
KERNEL==“uinput”,GROUP:=“uinput”,MODE:=“0660”
From here, one could assign one’s users to this group, but doing so would open up uinput to every program, with all the potential issues noted in the first paragraph. The safest approach is probably setgid:
as root – adjust path as needed
chown :uinput waynergy chmod g+s waynergy
If this doesn’t still doesn’t seem to work (as in #38) be sure that the uinput module is loaded properly. This might be done by creating a file /etc/modules-load.d/uinput.conf with the contents of uinput
This is compared to just installing synergy which takes 7 seconds. I’m not sure why anyone imagines this is a credible alternative.
https://github.com/htrefil/rkvm
Client machine is a Windows box, and I can’t change that, unfortunately.