in packages maintainer of Deskflow has left the budilding so i’m wondering how to install Deskflow directly from Github GitHub - deskflow/deskflow: Deskflow lets you share one mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on Windows, macOS and Linux. It's like a software KVM (but without video).
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Any updates? I would like to link my Macbook with NixOS.
The derivation in nixpkgs seems to be quite up to date now (1.25 vs. 1.26 on GitHub). So I think you should be able to use that.
If you are on wayland you need to check if your desktop/compositor supports the org.freedesktop.portal.InputCapture portal. If not, I think it’s not really possible. Otherwise, try adding deskflow to system packages and open the network ports. I’m not sure if it uses TCP or UDP so I have opened both.
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
deskflow
];
networking.firewall = {
allowedTCPPorts = [ 24800 ];
allowedUDPPorts = [ 24800 ];
};
The port can be configured, so make sure it matches your preferences in Deskflow:
With this, I’ve been able to successfully connect to clients, but sadly, my compositor doesn’t support the portal, so I cannot tell you if that will get it fully working, sadly.
