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Personally i prefer two computers, two monitors, one mouse/keyboard. Deskhop has been a lifesaver https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop
I solved the multi-computer-to-multi-monitor problem with a Level1Techs KVM[1]. The price (~$500 for the variant I purchased) initially gave me pause, but the longer I've had it, the happier I am with my decision. It handles all the switching at the hardware level and thus has no perceptible lag for video or anything else. I'm able to connect a single set of peripherals, in my case, two monitors, a keyboard, a trackb…
I wasted money on their KVM and it sucked for vfio stuff. Never again.
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He bought a $900 monitor that has a KVM built in
~$900, and it takes ~3 seconds to switch... I'll pursue this when "they" decide to get real and make this not suck. Until then, I have sufficient alternatives. I appreciate the writeup. It convinces me that integrated KVM stuff ~~ except for fewer wires ~~ isn't much better than the mess that's prevailed for years now, and I'm not missing much.
It is supposed to hot-switch the inputs if I move the mouse to the edge, but it does not, I guess it's because one of them is HDMI.
I used to have a Lenovo dock that I used as a switch, but not anymore and there's definitely less clutter.
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I wasted money on their KVM and it sucked for vfio stuff. Never again.
any details? considering this.
I solved the multi-computer-to-multi-monitor problem with a Level1Techs KVM[1]. The price (~$500 for the variant I purchased) initially gave me pause, but the longer I've had it, the happier I am with my decision. It handles all the switching at the hardware level and thus has no perceptible lag for video or anything else. I'm able to connect a single set of peripherals, in my case, two monitors, a keyboard, a trackb…
I use mechanical USB switches to individually switch USB lines like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01I0Y3GEE
one for keyboard, one for mouse
Problems it avoids
- cable speed usb
- no extra latency
- using boot-up hold-key-down sequences on macos works fine
- keyboard doesn't get hung in weird states
- no hotkey conflicts
- no mouse gets in weird state on one system that persists to another
etc etc etc
I solved the multi-computer-to-multi-monitor problem with a Level1Techs KVM[1]. The price (~$500 for the variant I purchased) initially gave me pause, but the longer I've had it, the happier I am with my decision. It handles all the switching at the hardware level and thus has no perceptible lag for video or anything else. I'm able to connect a single set of peripherals, in my case, two monitors, a keyboard, a trackb…
My mouse felt laggy under the KVM because of the high polling rate it wanted to use. Some key combinations also got added delay because of the way the KVM listened to shortcuts.
Instead of the $200 KVM a $20 alternative with a dedicated switching button did what I wanted in a much better way. Maybe if you need to switch back and forth more often a KVM would be alright? But at that point I guess dedicated monitors with the USB switch would still be better.
I did something similar last year with a monitor without built-in KVM but with good DCC support (Ultrasharp U3417W) and Synergy [0]. I use Synergy as part of my desk setup already, but needed a way to view the UI of a normally headless machine. The solution I built was a small shell script that terminated the active Synergy session and started a new one with a different config file (so keyboard/mouse input would map…
What a great idea. It should be obvious and easy but DDC commands are hard to find and should be documented better. I have a Dell U4323QE in the office and look forward to trying this out. I wondered if it was the same DDC commands so I googled a little and found this gist (concerning DDM): https://gist.github.com/nebriv/cb934a3b702346c5988f2aba5ee39... Which has the very useful comment: https://gist.github.com/nebri…
You gave me the idea to setup scripts on the windows / macos system to 'react' to hub detach events (which I click the button) and execute cli commands to change the monitor source automatically to the other machine. Too good.