Written for Synergy 3 (v3.7.2) and Synergy 1 (v1.21.4), checked 7 October 2026.
To use Synergy 1 or Synergy 3 with Wayland, run GNOME (v46 and later) or KDE Plasma (v6.1 and later) on a distro with the very latest Wayland libraries, and install the package made for your distro and release. If a feature you need doesn't work on Wayland, a newer release of your distro often brings it. Older releases can still offer an Xorg session instead: Switch back to Xorg on Ubuntu
Wayland support in Synergy 1 and Synergy 3 is experimental, and each Wayland feature often depends on having the very latest Wayland libraries (libei and the desktop portals). Those usually arrive first in rolling distros such as Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed; on other distros a feature can be missing until a later release of the distro.
Wayland is a display server protocol. It is aimed to become the successor of the X Window System.
We would like to thank Peter Hutterer (aka whot) and Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat for their work on Wayland support. Peter's work on the libei and libportal libraries was essential to allow Synergy 1 and Synergy 3 to work with Wayland.
Wayland compatibility
The only desktop environments currently supported on Wayland are GNOME (v46+) and KDE Plasma (6.1+). For more information, see the backends that currently support the Input capture portal: XDG Desktop Portal
On Raspberry Pi OS, use Xorg: its desktop isn't GNOME or KDE Plasma.
For a distro based on another one, such as Linux Mint, use the package for the distro it's based on. For the packages each product has, see: Operating system and hardware requirements
Clipboard sharing on Wayland needs libportal 0.10.0 or later, the version that brings clipboard sharing through the desktop portal. Some distro releases that have it:
- Fedora 43
- Fedora 44
- Fedora Rawhide
- Ubuntu 26.10
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has an older libportal, so on Ubuntu's long-term releases clipboard sharing on Wayland comes with Ubuntu 28.04.
Support for libei and its versioning on various Linux distros is constantly changing; an updated list can be found on Repology.
Which packages work only on Xorg, which version brings clipboard sharing on Wayland, and whether hotkeys work there, are in your product's section below.
What follows depends on your product: Synergy 3 or Synergy 1
Synergy 3
Packages that work only on Xorg
Every Linux package for Synergy 3 is built for Wayland, except the one for Ubuntu 22.04, which works only on Xorg because the release has no libei library.
Clipboard sharing and hotkeys
Clipboard sharing works on Wayland in Synergy 3 (v3.7.1 and later).
Hotkeys on a Wayland server don't work in Synergy 3 yet. For details, see: Hotkeys not working on Wayland
Synergy 1
Packages that work only on Xorg
Every Linux package for Synergy 1 is built for Wayland, except these, which work only on Xorg because the release has no libei library:
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Debian 12
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Rocky Linux 9
- Rocky Linux 8
Clipboard sharing and hotkeys
Clipboard sharing works on Wayland in Synergy 1 (v1.21.1 and later).
Hotkeys on a Wayland server work in Synergy 1 (v1.21.2 and later) on distros with the latest libraries. For details, see: Hotkeys not working on Wayland