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		SushiHippie on Aug 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IntelliJ IDEs supports Wayland now IIRC by design applications can't get the absolute mouse pointer position in wayland, so something like Synergy probably is not easy to do in Wayland without 'hacks'.

ChocolateGod on Aug 23, 2024 | [–]

Isn't that something libei is designed to solve?

SushiHippie on Aug 25, 2024 | | [–]

Have never heard of it, but seems like it should solve that

paulryanrogers on Aug 23, 2024 | [–]

Do any Synergy forks like Barrier do it?

filereaper on Aug 23, 2024 | [–]

Barrier was abandoned and no contributions are made IIRC.

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