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| Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM (github.com) | ||
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Are you thinking of the display-switch[0] script? Achieves K/V/M-switching with only a cheap USB-switch for hardware K/M-switching, and then this script detects such peripheral switching and emits DDC-commands for monitors to switch accordingly. I saw it posted here on HN[1], and have been using it since then with great success. [0] https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29608967 |
There was a post[0] from a couple months ago for a piece of software called 'display-switch'[1]. It turns a simple/cheap USB switch into a n-computer KVM (however many systems the USB switch supports) by detecting the presence of the USB switch device on either system and switching the video input of the monitors using DDC/CI.
I've been using it for a couple of months and it's been a game changer. No more fiddling with monitor menus to switch inputs or wondering if the monitor is currently set to one computer or the other. You have to make sure your monitors support DDC/CI, though.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29608967 [1] https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch