https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/sha...-with-barrier/

Is there any other thing I can use besides barrier to share the same keyboard and mouse between my desktop (slackware current) and a raspberry pi 4b? I'm a bit lazy, and I really don't want to go through the trouble of installing avahi on slackware. Or is it worth the 20 bucks for a KVM switch? (I don't need monitor.)

If I go the hardware route, I could add on a new gamepad for free shipping, since my gamepad is older than two of my nieces, both of which are teenagers now.

x2x will also work, but ... you'll still have to install something, so I don't know if it will be any benefit over barrier?

I do not know how avahi fits in with all this, though. Maybe x2x will work for you.

Cool, thanks! Will check it out.

Why would barrier be needed? Why not simply connect by ssh instead of barrier if you are running your raspberry pi headless? With X port forwarding in ssh you will be able to put graphical Windows from your raspberry pi on your Linux PC desktop. If you want an entire raspberry pi desktop in a Window on your Linux PC you could use something like Xnest or Xephyr.

I don't know if the login manager on raspberry pi supports xdmcp, but if it does, and your login manager on your Linux PC also supports xdmcp, you can use your Linux PC login manager to connect to your raspberry pi desktop. However, as xdmcp is an unencrypted protocol it should only be used in secure trusted networks.

regards Henrik

Garpu's not running it headless. Garpu just means that he doesn't need the "monitor" part of a KVM switch. Each of the two different computers is attached to its own monitor.

Normally, with a KVM switch, you share a single monitor with both computers. When you "switch", you switch which computer your Keyboard, Video monitor, and Mouse are attached to.

But in this situation, the KVM switch is only being used to switch Keyboard and Mouse. The Video monitor ports on the KVM switch are simply left unplugged.

Yes, I've got a monitor plugged into each. The KVM would be for mouse and keyboard only. It does seem like a hardware solution would be the easiest in this case. Thanks for the suggestions!

In my experience, most people that I know with monitors connected by DisplayPort choose to only use the KVM switch for keyboard and mouse and prefer to have multiple monitors to avoid an annoying delay when switching between computers. This delay did not exist when the monitors and KVM-switches were connected by DVI.

regards Henrik

She, by the way.

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Ah, thanks for the correction! Sorry I assumed without thinking.

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It's all good.

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