Barrier: Share mouse and keyboard between computers

Post by falcolas » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

vintermann wrote: post #5

Just don't use it on any computer you play online games on. "Anti cheat" software tends to freak out on things like this.

Post by weikju » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 2:54 PM UTC

mjlee wrote: post #13

dukeofdoom wrote: post #11

I will soon have two macbooks on my desktop in front of me. I hope to use the older macbook to run background tasks, like uploading videos to youtube and as a third monitor. I have keychron k1 keyboard and an mx master mouse. Keychron is currently connected to the USB hub due to led lights, latency. But the keyboard has a battery and can work off of bluetooth. Mouse is connected through the tiny dongle that comes wit…

I think Universal Control (in the current MacOS 12.3 Release Candidate, should be public next week) will do what you want.

Post by 0des » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 3:07 PM UTC

0xCMP wrote: post #19

durazabu wrote: post #15

Barrier has been forked to https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap which has a hundred more commits by the same devs. The name is still barrier though, has anyone more info about this fork?

They have an issue where they explain that they have disagreements with how barrier is run and the current owner does not want to pass control to them. They are the most active recent contributors. personally I am waiting for them to cut a stable release and then try it out. https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap/issues/1414

Post by torstenvl » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC

mwexler wrote: post #9

This still requires a dedicated monitor connection to each box with a hardware or source switch, right? Or a screen per device? That is, the KVM (in the VGA days) used to switch the mouse, keyboard, and video source so a single monitor, keyboard, and mouse switches across devices. But barrier doesn't try to solve that part, I think. Modern HDMI KVM hardware switches seem rather expensive; anyone found a good way to "…

Post by mijoharas » Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 3:16 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #21

vintermann wrote: post #5

Just don't use it on any computer you play online games on. "Anti cheat" software tends to freak out on things like this.

Only for the rootkit style anti-cheat software. Personal opinion: Don't put anything that matters, or connections to anything that matters, on computers with rootkit anti-cheat software installed. Even if the company itself is perfectly respectful, there's too many instances of supply chain attacks and attackers loitering on internal networks to trust such a vulnerability. At all.