One keyboard and mouse or trackpad for a Mac and a Windows PC over the local network, in either direction. Push the pointer off the shared edge and it carries on onto the other machine, or double-tap the trigger key (Right Option on the Mac, Right Ctrl on the PC). The clipboard follows. Traffic stays on your network, encrypted and authenticated; pairing is a six-digit code.
Install 1.3.3 over any earlier version; your pairing and settings stay as they are.
Downloads
- macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon:
Beamer-1.3.3.dmg, signed and notarised by Apple. Intel Macs are not supported yet. - Windows 10 and 11:
Beamer-Setup-1.3.3.exe, orwinget install KalkmanCode.Beameronce the winget listing is approved.
The Windows installer is not code-signed, so Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" the first time. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Everything in it is built from this repository.
In this release
- Keyboard layouts that move letters now work. On a German, French or other Mac whose layout moves letters, shortcuts sent to the PC follow the keys you press: Cmd+Z is undo and Cmd+A selects all, where before they arrived as the keys in US positions (Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+Q). Letters typed on the PC land on the Mac as typed, where before a "z" could arrive as "y". Beamer reads the Mac's layout when it starts and again whenever you switch layouts.
- Relaunch Beamer after granting permissions. macOS only passes keys to an app started after Input Monitoring is granted. Once both permissions are granted, the Permissions page says so and offers Relaunch Beamer, so the keyboard crosses without hunting for Quit.
- Pairing across a VPN or guest Wi-Fi. When no PC appears on the Mac's Pairing page, it now says why that can happen and points to the Connection page, where the PC's address and a shared token can be entered by hand.
Still not handled: a dead key typed on the PC (´ then e) does not cross, so the accent is lost on the Mac.