barrierc(1)

barrierc1

Barrier keyboard/mouse client

Usage

barrierc [--yscroll <delta>] [--display <display>] [--no-xinitthreads] [{--daemon | --no-daemon}] [--name <screen-name>] [{--restart | --no-restart}] [--debug <level>] <server-address>

Overview

Start the barrier client and connect to a remote server component.

Options

-d, --debug <level>

filter out log messages with priority below level. level may be: FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTE, INFO, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2.

-n, --name <screen-name> use screen-name instead the hostname to identify

this screen in the configuration.

-1, --no-restart

do not try to restart on failure.

--restart

restart the server automatically if it fails. (*)

-l --log <file>

write log messages to file.

--no-tray

disable the system tray icon.

--enable-drag-drop

enable file drag & drop.

--enable-crypto

enable the crypto (ssl) plugin.

--display <display>

connect to the X server at <display>

--no-xinitthreads

do not call XInitThreads()

-f, --no-daemon

run in the foreground.

--daemon

run as a daemon. (*)

--yscroll <delta>

defines the vertical scrolling delta, which is 120 by default.

-h, --help

display this help and exit.

--version

display version information and exit.

Default options are marked with a *

The server address is of the form: [<hostname>][:<port>]. The hostname must be the address or hostname of the server. Placing brackets around an IPv6 address is required when also specifying a port number and optional otherwise. The default port number is 24800.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12

From barrier 2.4.0+dfsg-3 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.