Product: Synergy (all versions)
Operating system: Linux
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 25.10 Questing Quokka
- Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
- Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole
- Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat
- Linux Mint 22
- Fedora 43
- Fedora 42
- 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
Wayland compatibility
Please note that the only desktop environments which are currently supported with Synergy when using Wayland are GNOME (v46+) and KDE Plasma (6.1+)
Additionally, Wayland does not support clipboard sharing for apps like Synergy at the moment. It requires XDG Desktop Portal merging a PR to allow clipboard sharing (there is an open PR for this, and it is outside of our control when it's merged).
In the meantime, if you would prefer to make use of clipboard sharing with Synergy, you would need to switch to Xorg/X11 instead, as it has clipboard sharing support: Switch from Wayland to Xorg
libei support (and versions) on the various Linux distros is constantly changing, an updated list can be found on Repology