Mouse Without Borders for Linux (Go Client for the PowerToys Protocol)
Details
- External ID
- 48823108
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mouse Without Borders for Linux (Go Client for the PowerToys Protocol)
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- multi-computer mouse and keyboard control for linux
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Reverse-engineering the proprietary PowerToys Mouse Without Borders protocol and implementing low-level mouse/keyboard virtual input drivers, clipboard sharing, and network tunneling across Linux displays (X11/Wayland) demands deep OS and kernel-level input knowledge.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires socket communication reverse-engineered from Microsoft's PowerToys protocol, combined with low-level Linux virtual input injection (via uinput/libinput) and display server event grabbing across both X11 and Wayland protocols. The difficult challenges include synchronizing seamless cursor transition across boundaries, encrypted network sockets, and handling edge cases in Wayland security restrictions that disallow global input snooping without custom compositor protocols.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #421 of 452 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 243 days after the earliest competitor.
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