mykvm

What's new

Added

• App Updates offers Stable and Beta (bate) channels. The selected channel is saved and also applies to remote client update requests.
• Per-device reverse scrolling: Devices → Device settings → Reverse scroll direction changes both scroll axes for that remote device, independently of macOS natural scrolling or MOS (discussion #29).

Fixed

• Windows: cursor recentering counts as a live mouse-hook callback, preventing unnecessary hook reinstalls while controlling an idle remote screen.
• Success banners such as remote client update requests close automatically after five seconds and include a Close button.
• Windows: input-service actions have the same spacing below the local information grid as other settings controls and wrap on narrower windows.
• macOS: screen entry uses a valid, cached transparent cursor; paired connections are prepared before crossing, and reconnecting peers keep the local cursor until input can be sent.
• macOS: received mouse, keyboard, and scroll input releases native temporary data after each command instead of retaining it on long-lived network workers.
• The latest-version label shows the selected channel's published version, including when the installed local test build is newer.
• macOS: repeated remote scrolling reuses one private input-state table, preventing shared-memory growth during long sessions. Scroll events keep explicit discrete and momentum-free settings.
• macOS: remote drags keep matching press/move/release events on macOS 27. Returning to the controller keeps the actual drag position until handoff, and stopping sharing releases held buttons. Ordered snapshots recover lost presses without replaying stale drag state.
• macOS: a disabled input tap releases remote keys and buttons before recovery. Cursor suppression is checked before forwarding pending movement (#45).
• Clipboard acknowledgements allow Windows clipboard retries to finish; slow clipboard operations keep the keyboard/mouse connection intact. Windows clipboard access is serialized within MyKVM, and busy errors identify the holding process.
• Windows: elevated service installation returns its actual failure to the UI, records a diagnostic result, validates the helper executable before installation, and reports readiness timeouts (#46).
• Clipboard images from chat apps fall back to available bitmap data when their private temporary file cannot be read.
• Windows: installing or repairing the unattended-control service waits for its startup pipe and for old workers to exit. A briefly locked helper executable is retried; failures show the backend's specific error instead of a generic runtime message (#27, #40).
• Windows: refused clicks, keys, and scroll events retry through the input service even when Windows supplies no error code. This covers elevated prompts on the normal desktop, including UAC without dimming (#28).

Known limitations

• Linux keyboard/mouse capture and injection are not implemented; Linux packages do not provide input sharing.
• Native multi-finger touchpad gestures are not supported. Native cross-screen file dragging remains experimental.
• Reports of intermittent continuous scrolling have not been confirmed resolved in every scenario.

Downloads

• macOS: use the universal .dmg. The .app.tar.gz is for automatic updates.
• Windows: use the x64 .exe installer.
• Linux: AppImage, .deb and .rpm packages are available with the input limitation above.

Update both devices to receive the latest input and clipboard corrections.

Full changelog: https://github.com/XxMinor/mykvm/compare/v0.9.13...v0.9.14

What's new

Added

• Device settings use a modal form. Pointer and scroll speeds are saved together; pairing and removal actions are grouped inside the form.
• Folder transfers preserve nested directories and empty folders. Windows native drags include directory descriptors; ordinary transfers unpack into the receiving folder. New folder and file-clipboard protocols require both peers to be updated.
• Rich clipboard sharing includes HTML and RTF with a plain-text fallback.
• File clipboard paste transfers selected files/folders without requiring network file shares. Active transfer toasts have a Cancel button.
• Manually added peers keep their selected connection IP, including after pairing, rediscovery, and address changes (#26).
• Drag-and-drop files across machines (ShareMouse-style, experimental): drag files on the machine that owns the keyboard and mouse onto a controlled machine. Controlling Windows → Mac: drag files toward the screen edge that borders the Mac — a document icon follows the cursor onto the Mac, and releasing over an open Finder folder drops the files there (otherwise the Desktop). Controlling Mac → Windows client is also in. Requires file transfer to be enabled in Settings, and both sides on this version or newer.
• Drag files the other way too — from a controlled machine back to the controller. While controlling a Mac from Windows, grab a file on the Mac and drag it back across the edge onto Windows: it becomes a real native drag on Windows that you can drop into any folder, app, or field. Requires both sides on this version or newer.
• Fetch the other machine's log from Settings → Diagnostics: a server pulls its online clients' logs ("Fetch Client Log"), a client pulls its server's ("Fetch Server Log"). The log lands in Downloads/MyKVM Remote Logs, so troubleshooting no longer means copying files between machines. Requires both sides on this version or newer.
• Update a client from the controller: in Devices, a client running an older version shows "Update available" and an Update button. The client installs the release its own updater finds (still verified against its update key) and restarts, so a machine without its own keyboard and mouse never needs one for an update. Requires the client on this version or newer.
• Media keys — volume up/down, mute, play/pause, next and previous — reach the machine you are controlling, in both directions.
• Per-device pointer and scroll speed: on the controller, each added device in Devices has its own pointer (0.5×–2×) and scroll (0.5×–3×) speed.
• Lock sync (Settings, off by default): locking the controller locks its online clients too. Only locking is synced; each computer unlocks with its own password.
• Windows clients offer the unattended-control service once when it is not installed; it is what keeps a client controllable before sign-in and while MyKVM restarts for an update.

Fixed

• Screen-switch shortcuts restore the cursor position used before leaving each device and screen. Only a first visit without a remembered position lands at the center; hidden client parking does not overwrite the remembered position.
• MyKVM shortcuts release logical keys on both devices while tracking physically held modifiers separately. Holding Alt for repeated screen switches remains possible; releasing Alt stops plain arrow keys from switching screens.
• macOS: leaving a controlled Mac requests cursor hiding until the next movement. Re-entry, local mouse movement, and stopping sharing restore it; ordered cursor messages prevent delayed parking from overriding re-entry.
• macOS: remote wheel events use independent input state and explicit discrete scrolling flags. Rate-limited scroll logs help distinguish repeated remote events from continued scrolling inside an application.
• Windows: startup requests administrator privileges through the normal UAC prompt, so elevated desktop programs do not require a separate trip to Settings.
• Settings and Devices pages drop r

What's new

Fixed

• Keyboard, mouse, and clipboard could fail to connect between machines — the QUIC handshake rejected the peer with invalid peer certificate: BadSignature. The transport now pins the device's advertised certificate directly instead of running brittle chain validation over a self-signed certificate, which fixes cross-platform (macOS ↔ Windows) handshakes.

Downloads

• macOS: download the .dmg, then drag MyKVM to Applications. The .app.tar.gz file is for automatic updates only.
• Windows: download the .exe installer.
• Linux: download the AppImage, .deb, or .rpm package.

Current build: v0.9.15-beta.116 Source: https://github.com/XxMinor/mykvm/commit/f55cb8239e064bda7ca4e8061556fc1b60584038

What's new

Added

• App Updates offers Stable and Beta (bate) channels. The selected channel is saved and also applies to remote client update requests.
• Per-device reverse scrolling: Devices → Device settings → Reverse scroll direction changes both scroll axes for that remote device, independently of macOS natural scrolling or MOS (discussion #29).
• Device settings use a modal form. Pointer and scroll speeds are saved together; pairing and removal actions are grouped inside the form.
• Folder transfers preserve nested directories and empty folders. Windows native drags include directory descriptors; ordinary transfers unpack into the receiving folder. New folder and file-clipboard protocols require both peers to be updated.
• Rich clipboard sharing includes HTML and RTF with a plain-text fallback.
• File clipboard paste transfers selected files/folders without requiring network file shares. Active transfer toasts have a Cancel button.
• Manually added peers keep their selected connection IP, including after pairing, rediscovery, and address changes (#26).
• Drag-and-drop files across machines (ShareMouse-style, experimental): drag files on the machine that owns the keyboard and mouse onto a controlled machine. Controlling Windows → Mac: drag files toward the screen edge that borders the Mac — a document icon follows the cursor onto the Mac, and releasing over an open Finder folder drops the files there (otherwise the Desktop). Controlling Mac → Windows client is also in. Requires file transfer to be enabled in Settings, and both sides on this version or newer.
• Drag files the other way too — from a controlled machine back to the controller. While controlling a Mac from Windows, grab a file on the Mac and drag it back across the edge onto Windows: it becomes a real native drag on Windows that you can drop into any folder, app, or field. Requires both sides on this version or newer.
• Fetch the other machine's log from Settings → Diagnostics: a server pulls its online clients' logs ("Fetch Client Log"), a client pulls its server's ("Fetch Server Log"). The log lands in Downloads/MyKVM Remote Logs, so troubleshooting no longer means copying files between machines. Requires both sides on this version or newer.
• Update a client from the controller: in Devices, a client running an older version shows "Update available" and an Update button. The client installs the release its own updater finds (still verified against its update key) and restarts, so a machine without its own keyboard and mouse never needs one for an update. Requires the client on this version or newer.
• Media keys — volume up/down, mute, play/pause, next and previous — reach the machine you are controlling, in both directions.
• Per-device pointer and scroll speed: on the controller, each added device in Devices has its own pointer (0.5×–2×) and scroll (0.5×–3×) speed.
• Lock sync (Settings, off by default): locking the controller locks its online clients too. Only locking is synced; each computer unlocks with its own password.
• Windows clients offer the unattended-control service once when it is not installed; it is what keeps a client controllable before sign-in and while MyKVM restarts for an update.

Fixed

• A controlled device whose IP address changed (for example macOS rotating its private Wi-Fi address) no longer ignores mouse, keyboard, clipboard, file, and diagnostic requests from its paired controller.
• Windows: cursor recentering counts as a live mouse-hook callback, preventing unnecessary hook reinstalls while controlling an idle remote screen.
• Success banners such as remote client update requests close automatically after five seconds and include a Close button.
• Windows: input-service actions have the same spacing below the local information grid as other settings controls and wrap on narrower windows.
• mac