@soybean_alien Sorry for the delay! Sorry to hear you're having problems, would you mind reaching out to our support team for a faster response? https://t.co/VKrS0IerqE
Honest one from us: right now only one person on our team is committing to Deskflow upstream. One person is not enough long term.
In 2026 we are working to make budget available for a new developer focused on Deskflow and Synergy 1.
More in the thread 👇
In 2025 we paid $5,950 directly to external open source contributors:
$3,000 to Dustin Kaiser
$1,300 to Chris Rizzitello
$750 to laz-001
$500 to Denizhan Dakılır
$200 to BMagnu
$200 to Vamshi Maskuri
Why these people, and what they shipped, in the thread 👇
🎂 Happy birthday Synergy! Today marks the 25th birthday of Synergy
The very first version of Synergy was committed to the code repository on 13 May 2001 by Chris Schoeneman (crs23).
Fun fact: Chris originally hard coded Synergy to work with his main computer (audrey2) and his client (remote1), so you had to manually edit and recompile the source code to change the names. Only Linux was supported at this point (Windows and Mac came later on).
"Don't ghost me bro."
Daniel Thompson-Yvetot (Tauri co-founder) at FOSDEM 2025, on why maintainers need to stay in daily contact with their community instead of vanishing between releases.
That line stuck with us. Here's what we did about it 👇
Running Synergy 1 across a fleet? We are preparing to re-fork from Deskflow for a new beta, and plan to keep doing it yearly. A year of fixes and platform work lands together. https://t.co/lFs5TTXT9I
Small fixes that add up: cursor visibility retry, a delay on desk leave to stop years of flicker, and MouseKeys enabled at screen setup so accessibility settings stop getting stomped. https://t.co/lFs5TTXT9I
If the alt key has been weird for you on Wayland, good news. We disabled the meta modifier, added Hyper key handling, and now read modifier masks from your real keymap. Lands in an upcoming Synergy 1 release. https://t.co/lFs5TTXT9I