DESKFLOW-CLIENT(1)

💖 DESKFLOW-CLIENT(1) 💖

okay so bestie — you've found your way to the manual page for deskflow-client, a User Command, and honestly? she's giving keyboard-and-mouse-sharing royalty. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

deskflow-client — Keyboard and mouse sharing utility (Client)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

deskflow-client [OPTIONS]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Keyboard and mouse sharing utility. That's it, that's the whole vibe check. 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h,--help — print this help message and exit. she's helpful AND she leaves immediately, icon behavior.
• --config-toml TEXT — use TOML configuration file.

and then, like, the page hits you with a whole nested usage block, because of course it does:

Usage: deskflow-client [--address <address>] [--yscroll <delta>]
[--sync-language] [--invert-scroll] [--display <display>]
[--daemon|--no-daemon] [--name <screen-name>] [--restart|--no-restart]
[--debug <level>] <server-address>

Connect to a Deskflow mouse/keyboard sharing server. fr fr, that's the whole job. 🌈

• -a, --address <address> — local network interface address.
• -d, --debug <level> — filter out log messages with priority below level. level may be: FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTE, INFO, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2.
• -n, --name <screen-name> — use screen-name instead the hostname to identify this screen in the configuration.
• -1, --no-restart — do not try to restart on failure. she said "I'm not getting back up" and honestly, valid.
• * --restart — restart the server automatically if it fails. (the * means it's a default, bestie — more on that below 💅)
• -l --log <file> — write log messages to file.
• --enable-crypto — enable TLS encryption. 🔥 secure her!!
• --tls-cert — specify the path to the TLS certificate file.
• -f, --no-daemon — run in the foreground.
• * --daemon — run as a daemon. (also a default, btw)
• --yscroll <delta> — defines the vertical scrolling delta, which is 120 by default.
• --sync-language — enable language synchronization. 🦋
• --invert-scroll — invert scroll direction on this computer. chaos mode, but make it intentional.
• --display <display> — when in X mode, connect to the X server at <display>.
• -h, --help — display this help and exit. (yes, she's listed twice. she contains multitudes. 🙈)
• --version — display version information and exit.

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* marks defaults. 👑

The server address is of the form: [<hostname>][:<port>]. The hostname must be the address or hostname of the server. The port overrides the default port, 24800. no cap, 24800 is the number to remember. ⭐

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

the legal girlies, showing up right on schedule:

Copyright © 2024-2025 Deskflow Devs
Copyright © 2012-2025 Symless Ltd.
Copyright © 2009-2012 Nick Bolton
Copyright © 2002-2009 Chris Schoeneman

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• deskflow(1)
• deskflow-client(1)
• deskflow-server(2)

All documentation is on the web, so please point your browser at <https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/wiki> and surf away. 🌊 go on, click it, she's waiting.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this was deskflow-client v1.23.0.0, pro... edition, dated August 2025 — catch you in the next manpage, mwah 💅✨🌸