Good 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…
Would that completely break down if your cursor is moved by something other than the mouse? (An automation script, a game that locks the cursor to the middle of the screen, etc.)
Is that a common practice in games? What is its purpose? To stop botting?
Would that completely break down if your cursor is moved by something other than the mouse? (An automation script, a game that locks the cursor to the middle of the screen, etc.)
Is that a common practice in games? What is its purpose? To stop botting?
I think that's to prevent the cursor from hitting the edge of the screen and the player being unable to turn further (though I'm not certian if every game does it this way)
As far as I understand it, everyone is better off completely avoiding HDMI in favor of DisplayPort if at all possible.* HDMI has many confusing poorly-specified versions, includes a bunch of DRM to serve content cartels rather than the consumer, and just overall is less reliable. Is going to DP an option for you? Hopefully you have DP as an option on both ends of everything. My Amazon cheap DP KVM is fast enough for…
I'm on sabbatical, so not currently needing a switcher - but I'll get a displayport kvm next time.
I tested it. It's about 3 seconds when switching to my Mac Mini (where this is the one and only monitor) -- it takes a couple of seconds longer to switch back to my laptop because I use the laptop open and macOS seems to take forever to think about which windows to move around randomly before lighting up the external display.
Thing is, I used the old OSS Synergy some 15-20 years ago, across Linux, Windows and I believe OSX as well (although I am not 100% certain about the latter). It worked absolutely flawlessly for several years while I used it and I loved it dearly. Fast forward (I had no need for a software kvm until last year) and I use Barrier now and it barely works. Autostart on Windows doesn't work at all, the installer failed to…
Turn off clipboard sharing, use a config file, and barrier works well on most systems. Way too much BS to get it running though.
It works until it doesn't. And clipboard sharing is "essential" to me. Wrt/ clipboard sharing, yes, I could work around not having it available but that's 50% of why I use it in the first place and as I said everything worked absolutely as expected in the olden days. Yet another tech that has only gotten worse over the last decate, similar to the shit show that instant messaging has become. I miss the times where I could run a well-integrated multi-protocol chat client on all of my computers regardless of OS which required basically no RAM or CPU usage to chat with all my contacts regardless of what protocol they used. Now it's mostly Electron crap eye candy taking too much resources by a factor of >100 and way too much screen estate. It's simply not practical anymore. "Things were better before" is in 99% of cases a factually untrue, romanticized view on the past, but sometimes it's objectively true, and in rare cases like IM there are serious negative effects on my personal quality of life that I cannot fix on my end because the system itself is broken.
Synergy works well for this purely in software. Unfortunately it's not free or open source, but it's relatively inexpensive. https://symless.com/synergy