Basically title. I want to control a bare metal debian machine on a separate monitor (that always has this debian machine) from my windows gaming machine.

Edit: it’s called Synergy and the apt package is called deskflow. I’ll try it later and see if I can make it work.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Right. From what I’m reading, those tools were simply VNC clients, so whichever method you choose above should work to serve the session, and you just need to match the protocol for your windows client. Tons of great RDP clients out there for the windows side.

    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      Wait… so any RDP can just go across monitor boundaries like x2vnc used to? That would explain why development stopped. Do you know how I would make that happen? They used to have to make a 1px wide window at the edge of the screen that would magically transport the cursor to the other session. If you don’t immediately know, it’s cool I’ll look into it.

          • just_another_person@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            Okay, so I just found a simple post with steps, so this is the basic setup.

            Then you just find an RDP client on Windows that you like, move it to the monitor you want it on, and run it in fullscreen mode. Then you have a full desktop view on one of your monitors that is your remote Gnome desktop.

            • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksOP
              1·
              3 days ago

              Thank you for your research but that’s just regular RDP, /u/drspod told me the thing I’m actually looking for and it’s called Synergy (deskflow is the FOSS component in apt). So, solved - until I can’t make it work ;)