BARRIERS(1)

💖 BARRIERS(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the User Commands section, because this is barriers — the Barrier Keyboard/Mouse Server. yes, that one. the one that lets you share one keyboard and mouse across a whole little squad of computers. it's giving main character energy for your desk setup, fr fr. 🌈

✨ NAME ✨

barriers — Barrier Keyboard/Mouse Server 🖱️⌨️

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

barriers [--address <address>] [--config <pathname>] [--display
<display>] [--no-xinitthreads] [--daemon|--no-daemon] [--name <screen-
name>] [--restart|--no-restart] [--debug <level>]

like, that's the whole vibe in one block 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Start the barrier server component. that's it, that's the tea. this is the server half of the operation — it's the one hosting the keyboard and mouse, and the clients come knocking. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -a, --address <address> — listen for clients on the given address. that's where the little guys connect, okay?
• -c, --config <pathname> — use the named configuration file instead. custom config, custom life, periodt.
• -d, --debug <level> — filter out log messages with priority below level. level may be: FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTE, INFO, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2. so like, the higher up the ladder you go, the more it yaps. 🗣️
• -n, --name <screen-name> — use screen-name instead the hostname to identify this screen in the configuration. yes, the original really does say "instead the hostname", we do not gatekeep the source material.
• -1, --no-restart — do not try to restart on failure. it falls down, it stays down. no cap.
• --restart — restart the server automatically if it fails. (*) glow-up resilience ✨
• -l, --log <file> — write log messages to file. receipts, but on disk. 📝
• --no-tray — disable the system tray icon. she's not doing the little tray moment today.
• --enable-drag-drop — enable file drag & drop. yeet a file across screens, iconic.
• --enable-crypto — enable the crypto (ssl) plugin. 🔐
• --display <display> — connect to the X server at <display>
• --no-xinitthreads — do not call XInitThreads()
• --screen-change-script <path> — full path to script to run on screen change; first argument is the new screen name. cute little automation moment 🧚
• -f, --no-daemon — run in the foreground. so you can actually see what's happening, bestie.
• --daemon — run as a daemon. (*) she runs in the background, mysterious, unbothered. 💅
• -h, --help — display this help and exit. always read the help, it's literally free.
• --version — display version information and exit.

Default options are marked with a * 🫶

okay now the important address lore, don't skip this part:

The argument for --address is of the form: [<hostname>][:<port>]. The hostname must be the address or hostname of an interface on the system. Placing brackets around an IPv6 address is required when also specifying a port number and optional otherwise. The default is to listen on all interfaces using port number 24800. 🌐

not me begging you to remember the IPv6 brackets thing. if you're also specifying a port and you skip the brackets, it's gonna get weird. required, bestie. fr fr.

🍓 FILES 🍓

If no configuration file pathname is provided then the first of the following to load successfully sets the configuration:

• $HOME/.local/share/barrier/.barrier.conf
• /etc/barrier.conf

so it checks your home one first, then the system one, and whoever shows up first wins the crown 👑

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2018 Debauchee Open Source Group Copyright © 2012-2016 Symless Ltd. Copyright © 2008-2014 Nick Bolton Copyright © 2002-2014 Chris Schoeneman

that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💖 this was barriers 2.4.0-release from November 2019, so when you see that version and date float by, that's your girl. mwah, go share a keyboard with somebody 🦋💅