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
>
>

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