Wayland support on Linux

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Synergy 1 and Synergy 3 now have experimental support for Wayland on Linux. Wayland is a display server protocol. It is aimed to become the successor of the X Window System.

The Synergy team would like to thank Peter Hutterer (aka whot) and Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat for their work on Wayland support. Peter's work on the libei and libportal libraries were essential to allow Synergy to work with Wayland.

Newer Linux distros have libei support, which is required to use Synergy with Wayland.

Linux distros with libei support

These are some of the known Linux distros that support Synergy with Wayland through libei.

  • Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
  • Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole
  • Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat
  • Linux Mint 22
  • Fedora 41
  • Fedora 40
  • Fedora 39
  • Debian Trixie/13 (testing)
  • openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Arch Linux
  • Manjaro

Linux distros without libei support

On these Linux distros, you'll need to switch to Xorg to use Synergy because they do not support libei.

  • Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
  • Linux Mint 21
  • Fedora 38
  • Debian 12
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Rocky Linux 9
  • AlmaLinux 9
  • CentOS Stream

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