feschber/lan-mouse
mouse & keyboard sharing via LAN
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 40 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Enables sharing a single mouse and keyboard across multiple computers over a LAN network.
- Offers a high-performance, open-source alternative to proprietary software with cross-platform support and encrypted communication.
- Use for seamless multi-PC control in mixed Linux, Windows, and MacOS desktop environments.
- Use for integrating input device sharing into Wayland compositors like Sway, Hyprland, or KDE Plasma.
- Use for running a background daemon to automate input sharing in systemd-managed Linux setups.
Should you depend on it?
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License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
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From the README
Lan Mouse is a cross-platform mouse and keyboard sharing software similar to universal-control on Apple devices. It allows for using multiple PCs via a single set of mouse and keyboard. This is also known as a Software KVM switch.
Goal of this project is to be an open-source alternative to proprietary tools like Synergy 2/3, Share Mouse and other open source tools like Deskflow or Input Leap (Synergy fork).
Focus lies on performance, ease of use and a maintainable implementation that can be expanded to support additional backends for e.g. Android, iOS, ... in the future.
blazingly fast™ because it's written in rust.
Lan Mouse encrypts all network traffic using the DTLS implementation provided by WebRTC.rs. There are currently no mitigations in place for timing side-channel attacks.
Most current desktop environments and operating systems are fully supported, this includes
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+361 stars over 90 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +10 on Sep 9.
Forks
318+76
Open issues
158+33
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| makecindy/cindy | 9.3K | +771 | 45 | today |
| feschber/lan-mouse | 5.5K | — | 50 | 11 days ago |
| Category median | 9.3K | +839 | 45 | — |
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