Barrier
Cross-platform software for sharing a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers at a workstation.
What is Barrier?
Barrier is a cross-platform software utility for sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on your desk. It was forked from 
Synergy version 1.9's codebase.
As a keyboard, video, and mouse utility, Barrier aims to maintain the simplicity found inSynergy versions released before 2.0. Barrier's goals are the following:
• Let you use your keyboard and mouse from machine A to control machine B (or more)
• Hassle-free reliability
• Compatibility, with the aim being to "just work" with Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD
• Development communication by utilizing the open source development and release model
While focused on simplicity and ease of use, Barrier does support both clipboard sharing and SSL encryption.
Barrier currently does not support drag-and-drop on Linux kernel-powered operating systems, and it will not run at all on 32-bit versions of Windows.
Windows 7 or later is required.
Synergy version 1.9's codebase.As a keyboard, video, and mouse utility, Barrier aims to maintain the simplicity found in
Synergy versions released before 2.0. Barrier's goals are the following:• Let you use your keyboard and mouse from machine A to control machine B (or more)
• Hassle-free reliability
• Compatibility, with the aim being to "just work" with Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD
• Development communication by utilizing the open source development and release model
While focused on simplicity and ease of use, Barrier does support both clipboard sharing and SSL encryption.
Barrier currently does not support drag-and-drop on Linux kernel-powered operating systems, and it will not run at all on 32-bit versions of Windows.
Windows 7 or later is required.Recent user activities on Barrier
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Works better than Synergy and its free & open source! You can download the compiled app under releases when you click on the github link.
Actually completely open source. Full cross platform support. I get it to work without any effort and can have multiple network connections per computer and no trouble across linux and windows. No mac or bsd to test.
Hi, dude. How did you installed it on Linux? I still can't do it
Reply written about 3 years ago
I tested it around mid 2019. It has no new features on top of Synergy 1.x. In fact it has less features. While Synergy seemed to solve (to some extent) the issues they had with dead keys, dead keys simply don't work on Barrier, and that is a full stop to people that writes in languages other than english.
Decent enough when Synergy was a mess. These days Synergy is back to being an actively developed project, and Barrier hasn't had a release in nearly a year.
it's free and it works good don't feel any delay
Synergy dont't work well with international keyboards. Does somone know, it Barrier work with german Keybords. I.E. the "@" should work.
Does exactly what I needed, between Ubuntu and Windows 10