Wayland support (experimental)

We would like to announce experimental Wayland support for Deskflow/Synergy on Linux (known bugs). Wayland is a replacement for the X11 window system protocol and architecture.

Required: >= GNOME 46 or KDE Plasma 6.1

Special thanks:

• Peter Hutterer (@whot) and Olivier Fourdan (@ofourdan) from Red Hat for their work on implementing Wayland support. Peter Hutterer's work on libei and libportal is fundamental for Wayland support for Deskflow/Synergy. Thanks to @p12tic for reviewing Peter's work and @GeorgesStavracas for releasing libportal 0.8.0 which makes Peter's input capture feature available.
• We would also like to give an honorable mention to Andrew Nelless (@nlyan) and Xinyu Hou (@xhou-wavefin), who worked on the Deskflow/Synergy development team in 2017 and prototyped a Wayland Deskflow/Synergy client using /dev/uinput which was demonstrated to Red Hat in the same year.

It is worth noting that Peter initially developed Wayland support in a fork of Deskflow/Synergy called "Barrier", a now dead fork (superseded by the Input Leap fork where Wayland support was further developed). Deskflow/Synergy users who switched to Barrier to get Wayland support can now switch back and use either the free/gratis Deskflow/Synergy 1 Community Edition or the licensed Deskflow/Synergy 1 build.

What's Changed

• #7445 - Update config.yaml to support Linux Mint build target (by @import-that)
• #7448 - Only add PR comments for internal PR
• #7449 - Wayland support (port Red Hat libei and libportal impl)
• #7453 - Change default value for dev thanks message (1.16)
• #7455 - Use EI screen when XDG_SESSION_TYPE is "wayland"
• #7459 - Make Meson-provided packages optional
• #7461 - More robust choco install and helpful install_deps.py messages
• #7462 - Only create tags (not releases) when merging PRs into master
• #7464 - Restore --only-python arg to only install Python deps
• #7465 - Also cut + char for SHORT_VERSION var used on upload
• #7467 - Load server or client args from synergy-config.toml
• #7469 - Option to link against local libportal and other subprojects
• #7470 - Port EI fixes to use pipe2 instead of pipe and fcntl
• #7471 - Use vcpkg to manage openssl dep instead of choco
• #7472 - Testing CI changes for PR merge trigger
• #7473 - Simplify vcpkg caching and use system vcpkg
• #7475 - Update README.md to provide more community info
• #7477 - Improve history FAQ item on README.md
• #7474 - FreeBSD GitHub runner with vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1
• #7479 - Add BUILD.md to get people started
• #7480 - Workflow to check new issues if tech support needed
• #7484 - Move issue checker to Python script
• #7485 - Use .venv dir for as Python venv and cache
• #7486 - Move issue check logic to GitHub script
• #7488 - Only wait for elevated process to end when arg is set
• #7489 - Add --config-toml arg for TOML config file
• #7492 - Add warnings for missing Wayland libs and features
• #7495 - Use 16-CPU CI runner for FreeBSD
• #7496 - Cache vcpkg local app dir to restore built OpenSSL
• #7497 - Move some EI server log messages to higher log levels
• #7498 - Option to static link libportal ahead of 0.8.x distribution

New Contributors

• @import-that made their first contribution in https://github.com/symless/synergy/pull/7445

Full Changelog: https://github.com/symless/synergy/compare/1.15.1+r3...1.16.0-beta+r2