Extension protocols to support keyboard and mouse sharing?

[Matt Hoosier]

Hi,

For a while now, I’ve been hoping to see some commercial solutions like
https://symless.com/synergy that implement keyboard and mouse sharing
finally add support for running on DEs that use Wayland.

It seems to be forever on their feature roadmaps but never really getting
closer.

I assume the problem is lack of a good way to snoop on the input events and
(maybe; not sure how these commercial solutions implement it) rewrite or
suppress certain input events when they’re talking to a typical DE
compositor like Mutter.

I had a quick look through the current set of things in wayland-protocols,
and nothing jumped out at me as work in that direction.

Does anybody know of something underway in the upstream compositors that
might not have filtered down to wayland-protocols yet, which would be
useful for securely implementing mouse/keyboard sharing across separate
machines? Maybe I could point these vendors to it.
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