I had issues with kvm too. I finally gave up. I did find an alternative that seems to work at least for me.
A program called "Synergy" from symless.com There is(was) an open source version for a while and it worked for me. YMMV https://symless.com/synergy On Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 5:40 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2022, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > Tomas' use case seems simpler than mine and Rich's. > > Keith, > > You use two monitors, both displaying what's on a single computer, and > switch between two computers. I will have a single monitor displaying > applications on two desktops. That was my setup a long time ago, and I then > used NFS, so I'll re-learn how to set that up because it's more reliable > than KVM switches as I've been told by those who have felt the pain. > > > I'm guessing Rich (who, like me, is no spring chicken) has a similar > > legacy accumulation of ancient and custom tools. For months, I've been > > porting and failing and tweaking and (re)discovering flaws and > > workarounds. I hope to create work platforms that I can maintain into > > advanced old age. > > Both desktops (and the laptop) run Slackware so upgraded applications that > work on one will work on the others. > > In 2003 I went through the pains of switching distributions, from Red > Hat-7.0 to Slackware-8.0. It did take a while to rebuild essential tools > and > learn the new package management system. > > Stay healthy, > > Rich > >