GNOME’s Native Screencasting Feature is Taking Shape
GNOME’s Native Screencasting Feature is Taking Shape
As you may be aware (or you may not - we all lead busy lives) one of GNOME's Google Summer of Code projects for this year (2023) was to add support for
The developer working on integrating network display functionality into GNOME Shell shared short video clip to the GNOME sub-reddit [...] the feature adds a “screencast” button to the row of actions in the Quick Settings menu. Clicking this opens a modal picker where the user can select any Miracast or Chromecast compatible displays on the network.
It'd be great if this was easily installable outside of gnome. I'd love an easy way to do this on sway or hyprland. Unless there already is a way?
35Wonder how feasible it would be to add a sunshine/moonlight option in there.
Maybe a little overkill for a lot of users, but it'd do wonders in the gaming community
31I dream of an easy to use, ready to go, baked-in Sunshine implementation.
I fear it just isn't that well known.
I mean, as a remote desktop for office use is vastly superior to anything else.
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That is so cool!
28I guess AirPlay is not possible due to Apple’s DRM.
18not sure how relevant these may or may not be, but there are some client device implementations
EDIT: paste didnt work https://github.com/openairplay/open-airplay
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Finally, this is something Linux is severely lacking. Every Android phone today comes with screencast integrated. Connecting it to any projector with WiFi capability is no issue at all.
17Btw, is there any casting device/service available that's not spyware (i.e. AppleTV/Chromecast)?
10Miracast is basically just wireless HDMI
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If you're just going to stream video like this you could use any linux hdmi/wifi capable device connected to your TV. If you want to up that with popular streaming services you throw in a remote controlled browser on the device.. which is what I believe a chromecast does under the hood.
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Nothing like this on KDE, right?
9I thought this was going to be a screen recording tool. Like sharex. Having cast feature is cool as well though.
8That would be so great ! It’s something I’d enjoy having even if I don’t think I’ll use it that much. Gnome is really great 👍
4Tried "GNOME Network Displays" from flathub previously, couldn't get it connected to my TV and I wish it had option to cast a specific window. Hoping it will be smoother experience when it's integrated into GNOME
3I really like gnome but those giant buttons doesn't look good.
-3Just sharing a recent positive experience with bigger buttons: I just did some remote support because a printer wouldn't work. RustDesk worked great and thanks to the bigger buttons clicking them with awful latency wasn't so bad.
12Yeah I guess they are practical and easier to push. There is always pros and cons. :)
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My nitpick with those menus is how close the pop up menu is to the top panel and right edge of screen. I'd love to see some space between there.
1I find this argument to be one of the most intellectually and technically dishonest ones against GNOME. With a few clicks on internet, you can download and use any good GTK3/4 theme like GNOME Professional, Nordic or Qogir. See the Fonts and Tilix/Terminal title bars.
GNOME's custom scaling is not just most polished, but the most compact of all DEs (tried KDE, XFCE and LXQt), with the top bar taking a whopping 18 pixels of space on a 1366x768 display. And I did not even need to touch a configuration file, ever.
My machine setup
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