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hydra Remote window manager that replaces Synergy/Barrier with a single Go binary. Supports X11 on Linux (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu). Uses XInput2 raw events and XTest for simulation.
- ▪hydra Remote window manager that replaces Synergy/Barrier with a single Go binary.
- ▪Supports X11 on Linux (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu).
- ▪Uses XInput2 raw events and XTest for simulation.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/cookiengineer/hydra |
| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:26:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T06:07:08.888Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T06:07:08.888Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | rI9hl8QDRLZd · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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hydra Remote window manager that replaces Synergy/Barrier with a single Go binary. Supports X11 on Linux (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu). Uses XInput2 raw events and XTest for simulation. Features hydra listen <host> listens for mouse/keyboard events (controller/server) hydra connect left-of <host> connects to controller (position: left) hydra connect right-of <host> connects to controller (position: right) hydra connect above <host> connects to controller (position: above) hydra connect below <host> connects to controller (position: below) Virtual screen grid with tiling support Keyboard-driven tiling (Super+Arrow keys) i3-style workspaces (14 workspaces, Super+top-row keys) X11 window management (move, resize, raise, focus, map/unmap) HTTP API for programming and debugging (/config, /connect,…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.