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If you'd like to use a GUI, I wrote SimpleKVM:

https://github.com/fiddyschmitt/SimpleKVM

The GUI makes things (hopefully) a little easier to set up.

It was inspired by Haimgel's project.

It's nice to be able to run the monitor at native resolution and refresh rate, without paying hundreds for a KVM.

Fair warning to others, this project has no license, is Windows only and also requires an external closed-source/proprietary binary that is included in the repo.

Thanks ranger, I had completely forgotten about ControlMyMonitor.exe. That's how the program originally switched inputs, but was since replaced by win32 calls in MonitorController.cs.

I've removed that external dependency and published a new release.

Yes Windows only; I'll add mac & linux when I get a bit more time.

Cheers, Fidel

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