libei and libportal impl) (#7449)
* Add libei and libportal
* Port libei and libportal code by Peter Hutterer and Olivier Fourdan
* Add Peter Hutterer and Olivier Fourdan to important devs list
* Improve error handling for libei and libportal builds
* Checkout libportal tags/0.7.1
* Hack out the gi-docgen clone
* Remove new submodules in favor of using ExternalProject_Add
* Remove submodule dirs
* Use ExternalProject_Add instead of submodules
* Fixed namespace
* Hack to work around type libportal causing type conflicts
* Add log helper functions
* Use original log functions
* Switch to FetchContent, use libportal a1530a9 (unreleased) and use camelCase member names for consistency
* Restore a few events (much more work required)
* Add TODOs for supporting multiple lib versions
* Revert "Switch to FetchContent, use libportal a1530a9 (unreleased) and use camelCase member names for consistency"
This reverts commit 610cebb5b6a08282eee68f4424fcdbe9eaab4bf9.
* Simplify cmake config by removing builds for libei and libportal (will do this in `install_deps.py` instead)
* Remove submodules
* Remove .gitmodules
* Use meson to build subprojects
* Update copyright with Peter Hutterer's guidance
* Use meson for installing deps
* Fixed typo in tag name
* Remove submodules
* Remove old submodules
* Fixed libei name
* Defaults for pugixml and gtest depending on whether source exists in subprojects
* Ignore some subproject dirs
* Make deps OS-specific
* Move python deps to pyproject
* Only compile and install on Linux with Meson
* Revert "Move python deps to pyproject"
This reverts commit 92c8a287b8376a4d166058c85f1d6081f6fdb423.
* Add ninja to brewfile
* Add python3-attr
* Restore original coverage config
* Add ninja for meson
* Include meson in same try-except
* Fixed ninja dep name
* Move libs to correct oS
* Fixed include for wintoast
* Disable docs for libportal
* More options for libei and libportal
* Fixed option for libei
* Use ninja directly to install
* Revert "Use ninja directly to install"
This reverts commit c926d78ba483406a55acd10fb157c39e13f90b71.
* Meson install verbose
* Prints stdout/stderr
* Remove `from None`
* Remove submodules that somehow crept back in?!
* Prepend sudo if exists
* Add libei deps for all distros
* Fixed Fedora package name
* Add more deps for other distros
* Add more libs (including pugixml)
* Fix lib name
* Drop -u from pacman
* Add vala to rhel
* Make libportal optional
* Make portal link optional
* Remove example code
* Always use system pugixml
* Disable interactive apt through install_deps.py
* Revert "Disable interactive apt through install_deps.py"
This reverts commit 5bbc8fd689182447c79b81db16c961b98361a292.
* Set DEBIAN_FRONTEND in workflows
* Set DEBIAN_FRONTEND in CodeQL workflow
* Add gtest dep
* Add bundled libei dep
* Add libei dep to Arch
* Use `googletest` on openSUSE
* Add gmock dep
* Remove gtest dep from openSUSE
* Add libei on Fedora
* Bundle libei for older Linux distros
* Disable libei dep for RPM
* Also bundle symlink to .so
* Use ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}
* Rename libei to fix openSUSE
* List installed files
* Add libei-devel to openSUSE
* Add googletest-devel to openSUSE
* Remove manual deps (probably resolved automatically)
* Remove googletest from openSUSE (doesn't provide google mock)
* Only add Portal* if libportal found
* WIP - Partial work on using old events system :'(
* Add deps install commands for subprojects
* Solved more compile issues related to events system, threads, etc
* Fixed bad config for adding x, ei, portal sources
* Remove redundant deps
* Remove (another) redundant dep
* Fixed pacman command
* Add Ubuntu and Linux Mint libei deps
* Fixed Ubuntu and Linux Mint libei deps aliases
* Only iterate subprojects if not None
* Add rhel, rocky, and alma for libei
* Make rhel-like deps same as fedora again
* Build libportal on rhel-like
* Re-enable meson rhel-like for libportal
* Remove dbus-python
* Make libportal optional (for rhel-like)
* Handle ei event queue results
* Re-introduce libportal
* Print libei and libportal versions
* Add ei/portal args and client screen
* Switch --use args to --no
* Don't build libei/libportal on older distros as it's pointless
* Make libei and libportal optional
* Add Debian 13 runner
* Make some packages optional
* Remove subprojects
* Improve comment
* Add comment for libportal
* Improve comment
* Add Debian 13 runner
* Make optional... optional
* Change continuation stripper to remove newline and continuation char
* Make command strip more uniform
* Fixed help var syntax
* Fixed libei linking
* Ensure `kHelpNoWayland` is always defined
* Improve help message
* Fixed Debian 13 runner name
* Include sstream and use const var
* Update ChangeLog
* Remove Wayland block
* Return new timer
* Make tray icon logging verbose
* Fixed arg parser for wayland args
* Fixed init of EI screen
* Fixed lint issues
* Update README to indicate Wayland support in GNOME 46
* Add missing word
* Fixed comment positions
* Automate CI env
* Tone down debug log messages
* Add missing comma
* Remove redundant log line
Synergy
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, free to use, and does not require a license or serial key.
Wayland support: Wayland is supported (GNOME 46 is required).
To use the community edition, install the synergy package with your favorite package manager or build it yourself using the Developer Quick Start instructions below.
Join us on Discord or Slack in the #open-source channel.
Developer Quick Start
How to build Synergy 1 Community Edition. Check the Developer Guide wiki page if you have problems.
1. Dependencies:
Windows:
python scripts/install_deps.py
macOS/Linux:
./scripts/install_deps.py
2. Configure:
Windows:
cmake -B build --preset=windows-release
macOS:
cmake -B build --preset=macos-release
Linux:
cmake -B build --preset=linux-release
3. Build:
cmake --build build -j8
4. Test:
./build/bin/unittests
Packages
Synergy 1 Community Edition is packaged by the community (status shown below). Package maintainers can use scripts/package.py to build packages.
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:
Windows:
choco install synergy
macOS:
brew install synergy
Debian, Ubuntu, etc:
sudo apt install synergy
Fedora, Red Hat, etc:
sudo dnf install synergy
Arch, Manjaro, etc:
sudo pacman -S synergy
Repology: