This seems clever and useful enough to be turned into a manufactured product.
DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
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#122I’ve been using a software solution for this for over a decade. It’s called Synergy (https://symless.com/synergy) and it is fast - switches instantly over wifi and also works across Windows/Mac/Linux.
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#123Good to note that it doesn't require client software to detect edges. > To get the mouse cursor to magically jump across, the mouse hid report descriptor was changed to use absolute coordinates and then the mouse reports (that still come in relative movements) accumulate internally, keeping the accurate tally on the position. So it works like synergykm / barrier, without clipboard features and without client software…
Yes this is so clever and beautiful. Projects like these are my favorite thing to discover on HN.
Re: DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
#124On Windows, you have the option of using a tool named Mouse Without Borders, which was developed by Microsoft Garage and is now part of Windows PowerToys. Links: - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/mouse-without-borders - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
Barrier is a Cross-Plattform, open source Synergy fork that works quite well without any additional HW too [0]
Edit: I just noticed it is unmaintained (never bothered actually because it works. Input leap is the continuation
[0] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier [1] https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
This doesn’t seem to do the mouse position-triggered switching?
Not sure why they posted that when Level1Techs does actually have USB KM with mouse roaming. https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/p/4-port-km-switc...
GP was indicating monitor switching, which your link doesn’t do. The equivalent of TFA for monitor switching would be full KVM switching when the mouse crosses the outer screen edge.
Re: DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
#126Synergy works well for this purely in software. Unfortunately it's not free or open source, but it's relatively inexpensive. https://symless.com/synergy
Does Synergy work with multi monitor setups? I've enjoyed Barrier but it doesn't work when any of the machines have multiple displays so I've ditched it for now.
Synergy works with multi-monitor (for me at least). I've been using it for close to two decades. Outside of the Linux kernel, it is probably the single piece of software I've used the longest.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not every cool project needs to be a startup.
This. So much this. It's also really cool as a 'niche' project, and felt even approachable to someone like me who hasn't ever done more soldering than his first PS1 and a modchip.
I read some months ago that tinypilotkvm.com is doing JUST fine.
So yeah, sometimes niche markets can be profitable. And it doesn't have to be millions of dollars in VC money obviously to be invested.
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#128This is really impressive. Interesting to see a no-fuss hardware-only solution out there for this! I never thought it was possible. Nice work!
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#129After going down the hellish rabbit hole of KVM and thunderbolt dock shopping, I started to fantasize about doing a project like this. So many horror stories of cheap electronics frying your ports, the switch adding input delays, etc. It's not that I didn't want to shell out the money, but it seemed like all the recommended solutions were either ancient (still had VGA connections) or were enterprise grade (close to $1000). I would have settled for a little robot arm that just physically unplugs one USB cable and plugs in another.
Essentially I found that the easiest way to swap between my computers is to physically disconnect a thunderbolt cable from one and plug it into another. As far as I can tell there's no such thing as a thunderbolt switch, so this is the local minima I'm stuck in until I try and make my own solution.
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#130> Ever tried to move that YT video slider to a specific position but your mouse moves too jumpy and suddenly you are moving your hand super-carefully like you're 5 and playing "Operation" all over again? On YouTube specifically, you can scrub through a video frame-by-frame using the , (comma) and . (period) keys, no custom hardware required. :-)
That's nice. Btw, I'm curious, what kinda mouse do you guys use that makes you hold your breath while you scroll? I believe mice these days are super precise and works pretty well.
The mouse ain't the problem.
Once I was fast and precise, with sharp close vision. Now I'm not.
Enjoy your capabilities while you have them. Decline awaits us all.