Synergy 1 + Waynergy on Omarchy Arch Linux (Hyprland Wayland Setup)

Overview

After many hours of testing, trying:

• Synergy 3 on macOS and Linux
• Flatpak builds
• AUR variants
• Deskflow and other alternatives

I finally landed on a combo that actually works well on Wayland with Hyprland:

• macOS (server): Synergy 1
• Arch Linux (client): Waynergy
• Desktop: Omarchy / Hyprland
• Backend: wlr
• Keyboard fix: using Waynergy raw-keymap instead of xkb

Mouse was perfect from the start. The hard part was the keyboard, especially the letters A, E, R and the Command / Option keys from the Mac mapping correctly on the Arch client.

The final working solution uses:

• Hyprland’s own keyboard map (wl_keyboard_map = true)
• Synergy key codes (syn_raw_key_codes = true)
• A custom [raw-keymap] section

Huge thanks to ghost for this comment and mapping reference:
https://github.com/r-c-f/waynergy/issues/84

Omarchy Setup Dual boot and Auto-login (manual installation)

Overview

This guide walks through setting up Arch Linux manually with:

• No LUKS (to enable autologin)
• limine as the bootloader
• Larger /boot partition to accommodate multiple kernels
• Dual boot with Windows 11
• Omarchy desktop environment (curl -fsSL https://omarchy.org/install | bash)
• VFIO passthrough using AMD iGPU + NVIDIA RTX 4090
• Snapshots via BTRFS (optional)

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