Barrier - ZorinOS17Pro Wayland issue?

rmorris · 8 February 2024 08:28

Hello,

Since my upgrade to ZorinOS 17 Pro, I have not been able to use Barrier.
I have turned off firewalls on both PC's, and eventually got both installs of Barrier to be in a "Running" state.

However, moving my mouse across the screen, it does NOT move to the next PC.

I am thinking this is something to do with Wayland?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you.

swarfendor437 · 8 February 2024 08:47

It does appear that the devs of barrier did not have plans for Wayland support back in 2021:

You can change to Zorin on X at login. When you select your user name a cog appears bottom right of login screen, click on that to change to Zorin on X.

Also barrier is now a dead project:

github.com/input-leap/input-leap

Active Barrier maintainers have moved here

opened 02:58PM - 10 Nov 21 UTC

p12tic

The active maintainers of Barrier for the past 2 years, @p12tic and @shymega [1]… have moved their efforts to this repository. The reasons are the following: - All important parts of the project were controlled by `walker0643`. No one knows the real identity of that person. - `walker0643` has not been active for at least 2 years and did not give enough administrative access to anyone else, which caused operational issues maintaining the project. - The name `debauchee` is not professional and should not be associated to a popular project. Our attempts to achieve a compromise have failed, `walker0643` did not think that a fork is bad and encouraged it himself so we are here. We intend to maintain compatibility with older versions of Barrier. Currently we think that InputLeap would be a good new name for the project. We will confirm this when we do the first release from this repository. Picking new names will need changes in the directory structure of the project, so we want to delay this for as long as possible. [1]: During the past 2 years since v2.3.2 @p12tic and @shymega together authored 305 commits which is more than twice the number of commits by all the rest of contributors (150 commits). This can be checked by running `git shortlog -ns v2.3.2..master` on the Barrier repository.

Suggested alternatives here:

https://alternativeto.net/software/barrier/?platform=linux

rmorris · 8 February 2024 09:10

Wow! Thank you for your quick and detailed feedback.
I had "googled" for solutions but obviously did not use the right search terms, as your research has been far more effective!

I now have some reading to do!

swarfendor437 · 8 February 2024 12:08

I'm using de-Googled Chrome on Fairphone 3+ from /e/ foundation set to mojeek.com which doesn't always bring right answer but offers Brave search engine as first alternative.

Jeffv · 19 February 2024 16:58

Thx swarf. I too, had the same problem. Switching to Zorin on Xorg resolved my issue.