Okay, so I'm just gonna do a quick example of how to set up and install barrier
Across a Windows computer and a Linux computer. So what Barrier does is allows you to use just a single keyboard
across different computers
and then you can set it up a bit like you do with, you know Windows computers or
Raspbian if you have multiple monitors, then the mouse just slides off one screen on to the next one
What this does for me is to tidy up my desk because currently
I've only got two on here because obviously I've tidied it up but
normally I would have
Three or four monitors on my desk like when I'm at work
I have three or four monitors on my desk and then it becomes very difficult with multiple
Multiple keyboards
for each computer
So what I'm going to do is first of all start to set it up, set Barrier up on the Windows computer
So this is going to be what we call the server. So that's the one that's gonna have the keyboard on it
But you could put the server on Raspbian if you wanted but you don't need to
Okay, so on Windows
You go to the link that's in the blog post
It's in github.com/debauchee/barrier
go to the releases and
The releases there is a Barrier set up 2.32
It's a current version
Downloads, there we go. And we open up, you install that accept this agreement
Shortcut
Okay, it's going to launch Barrier for me straight away, so...
So as I said, this can be set up as a server. So what this means is this one is going to be sat
So the Windows computer is going to be sat
Serving the mouse and keyboard to other computers
So what we have to do first of all is to is to configure it so
Because this is the second time I've come into here
It's skipped a page, but normally just select server and it will come through to this page
So we're going to configure this interactively. So we go to configure server
Normally when you open up you'd look you'd see this and whatever your computer is called would be in here
Mine's called GORDON-DELL
What you didn't do is, ah, so I want one other computer to be setup and I want it to the left of my main computer
So I pick up this computer here and I drag it and drop it there
And as you see it comes up being called unnamed
double click it and
then what you do is
Rename it to be well, whatever you want really?
But at the moment the default is for a raspberry pi's to be called raspberry pi
But you can change that as you know on both sides, so it's not problem
So I click OK you've got this here. We click OK here. Go back here
so this is basically ready to go so I can just say reload it will it was running already, but it will
Load if you have if you didn't have this installed before it rather than real reload, it will just say started
So this is now running on here. So what we can do is we can now close it
And it's running in the background
and then one can do is go to the
to the Raspberry Pi
On the Raspberry Pi and open a terminal.
The terminal I can do sudo apt
install barrier
Okay, and now we go into the menu you should be able to see barrier under accessories. So click on it.
And this gives you a little introduction which is the one that you would have seen on the windows.
I hadn't already done it once before so
Just go. It's English. I want this one to be a client
So previously we would have clicked on server on the windows computer here. We're going to click on client
Ok
And then what Barrier does now is, it says OK, I'm a client and it's going to auto configure the client
so what it does is it automatically finds using sort of using module I believe or
Avahi which is a method for finding different computers mostly based on a
Mac method of finding computers. It finds the windows computer, which it knows is a barrier
It's answer answer to it. Then there is an SSL fingerprint that it's going to
Tell you which you could then check just to make sure it's that computer if you're worried about the security
I mean don't I know that's not an issue here?
So in there it says, right, Barrier is now connected you can close the config window and barrier will remain connected in the background
So it's going to be sitting running. You can see that little icon in the top right hand corner
So it's running, I can now stop it.
So, What I can do is I can get rid of
my mouse and keyboard and
Here where my mouse is on this computer
I can go over here and I can click on here so I can move things around here or I can
move things around on here
Which is great and
You can also do so it works with copy and paste so I can you know copy in here
In Windows and then I can paste it over here on the Linux computer.
So I just note I used a centre button to paste into terminal windows
But that's it so now you have two computers set up side by side. If you want to change the
setup of Barrier then you can easily do that just open Barrier in here
You can reconfigure it to move your Raspberry Pi
For example, you could move to the right or move above or below and if you have more computers, obviously you can continue on.
But that's it. That's Barrier, isn't it? Awesome?