wlr-remote

Remote control your mouse from another device through an encrypted connection with low latency.

For when you're too lazy to get up and move your mouse.

Find the Android app here.

How to run

wlr-remote works on any Wayland compositor implementing the wlr-virtual-pointer-unstable-v1 protocol e.g. niri, Sway, Hyprland, etc. You can see if your compositor supports it here.

Building is done with CMake. You will also need the Wayland development headers.

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build -j$(nproc)

Usage

Run the wlr-remote executable, and specify a password. Optionally, you may pass a port number to use, e.g. ./wlr-remote 12345. The default port is 37096. There is a test-client executable to check that things are working.

To actually connect to the client from your phone, see the Android client repository. I don't own any Apple devices, so I can't make an iOS client, sorry.

TODOs

• Scrolling support
• libevdev backend for systems that dont support the virtual pointer protocol
• Keyboard input (either virtual keyboard protocol or libevdev)
• Multi-touch support (requires libevdev backend)