Franco Lopez

Modern tech. Old-school curiosity.

Synergy 1 + Waynergy on Omarchy Arch Linux (Hyprland Wayland Setup)

Overview

After many hours of testing, trying:

  • Synergy 3 on macOS and Linux
  • Flatpak builds
  • AUR variants
  • Deskflow and other alternatives

I finally landed on a combo that actually works well on Wayland with Hyprland:

  • macOS (server): Synergy 1
  • Arch Linux (client): Waynergy
  • Desktop: Omarchy / Hyprland
  • Backend: wlr
  • Keyboard fix: using Waynergy raw-keymap instead of xkb

Mouse was perfect from the start. The hard part was the keyboard, especially the letters A, E, R and the Command / Option keys from the Mac mapping correctly on the Arch client.

The final working solution uses:

  • Hyprland’s own keyboard map (wl_keyboard_map = true)
  • Synergy key codes (syn_raw_key_codes = true)
  • A custom [raw-keymap] section

Huge thanks to ghost for this comment and mapping reference:
https://github.com/r-c-f/waynergy/issues/84


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