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Synergy is a keyboard and mouse sharing app. Use the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer to control nearby computers, and work seamlessly between them.
This project contains the source code for Synergy 1 Community Edition which is actively maintained. Synergy 1 Community Edition is free and open source software, and anyone is welcome to build it, run it, tinker with it, redistribute it as part of their own app, etc.
Wayland support: Experimental support in Synergy v1.16 (required >= GNOME 46 or KDE Plasma 6.1).
To use the community edition, we encourage you to build it yourself using the Build Quick Start
instructions below or you can install the synergy package with your favorite package manager
(please note that some package managers have older versions and need to be updated).
| Version | Main goal | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| v1.16 | Experimental Wayland support (libei and libportal) |
9th Sep 2024 | Beta released |
| v1.17 | Cross-platform daemon to replace legacy daemon | 18th Oct 2024 | Planning |
Dates are likely to change. If you have any questions, please start a discussion.
Version 1.15 brings a new philosophy of being more approachable to the open source community instead of wholly focusing on commercial interests. We still have customers to finance the development of the code, but we are committed to maintaining and improving Synergy 1 Community Edition for years to come and we're excited to work with our community of open source users to improve the code for the benefit of everyone.
Here are a few ways to join in with the project and get involved:
- Build the latest
masterversion (see below) and report a bug - Submit a PR (pull request) with a bug fix or improvement
- Let us know if you have an idea for an improvement
Synergy 1 Community Edition is free and open source software, and anyone is welcome to build it, run it, tinker with it, redistribute it as part of their own app, etc.
Tip
These instructions will build Synergy 1 Community Edition, which doesn't require a license or serial key. Check the Build Guide wiki page if you have problems.
1. Dependencies:
Linux, macOS, or BSD-derived:
./scripts/install_deps.sh
Windows:
python scripts/install_deps.py
2. Configure:
Linux, macOS, or BSD-derived:
cmake -B build
Windows:
cmake -B build --preset=windows-release
3. Build:
cmake --build build -j8
4. Test:
./build/bin/unittests
./build/bin/integtests
5. Run
./build/bin/synergy
Synergy 1 Community Edition is packaged by the community (status shown below).
Synergy 2 is no longer in development and we recommend that package maintainers do not provide it.
Synergy 3 and Synergy 1 (licensed) are available to download from the official packages.
Community edition:
macOS:
brew install synergy
Fedora, Red Hat, etc:
sudo dnf install synergy
Debian, Ubuntu, etc: (temporarily broken)
sudo apt install synergy
Arch, Manjaro, etc: (temporarily broken)
sudo pacman -S synergy
Windows: (very outdated)
choco install synergy
Note: Some packages are temporarily broken. We have reached out to the package maintainers to resolve this. If you're a package maintainer and have a question, please let us know.
We support all major operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Unix-like BSD-derived.
All Linux distributions are supported, primarily focusing on: Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Gentoo.
We officially support FreeBSD, and would also like to support: OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, Solaris.
Synergy is already available through most package managers as synergy, and we would love to see
the latest version of Synergy 1 Community Edition on every package manager for every OS we support
(Windows, macOS, Linux, Unix-like BSD-derived, etc).
Package maintainers can use scripts/package.py to see how we build packages.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about packaging Synergy.
Current packages:
Very outdated packages:
Broken packages:
It appears that the synergy package has been removed or discontinued from some package repositories.
That's a bit sad. If you're a package maintainer, please let us know if you have any questions.
- Lan Mouse - A Rust implementation with the goal of having native front-ends and interoperability with Synergy.
- Input Leap - A Synergy-derivative with the goal of continuing what Barrier started (a now dead Synergy fork).
We would love to see compatibility between our fellow open source projects, Lan Mouse and Input Leap. This idea is discussed from time in the communities for all of our projects, so it may happen in the not-too-distant future.
Our goal for Synergy 1 (including the community edition) has always been and will always be to make a simple, reliable, and feature-rich mouse and keyboard-sharing tool. We do maintain another product called Synergy 3, but as this uses Synergy 1 Core (the server and client part of Synergy), we depend on Synergy 1 to remain stable and modern which is why we continue to develop and improve the product.
We welcome PRs (pull requests) from the community. If you'd like to make a change, please feel free to start a discussion or open a PR. It's great that people spin up re-branded forks of Synergy, power to them. However, it's not necessary if you want to make changes. If you're thinking of starting your own re-branded fork of Synergy, it might be because we're doing something wrong so please let us know what we can do to let you feel welcome in our community.
Absolutely. The clipboard-sharing feature is a cornerstone feature of the product and we are committed to maintaining and improving that feature.
Yes! Wayland (the Linux display server protocol aimed to become the successor of the X Window
System) is an important platform for us.
The libei and
libportal libraries enable
Wayland support for Synergy. We would like to give special thanks to Peter Hutterer (@whot),
who is the author of libei, a major contributor to libportal, and the author of the Wayland
implementation in Synergy. Others such as Olivier Fourdan helped with the Wayland implementation,
and we rely on the work of our community of developers to continue the development of Wayland
support.
Synergy was first created in 2001 by Chris Schoeneman. Read about the history of the project on our wiki.
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This project is licensed under GPL-2.0 with an OpenSSL exception.