Multihead with wayland, similar to

Pietro Battiston ml at pietrobattiston.it
Tue Jun 1 12:59:53 UTC 2021


Thanks once more, Jonas,

Il giorno mar, 01/06/2021 alle 12.31 +0200, Jonas Ådahl ha scritto:
> [...]
> With PipeWire, every streamed monitor is streamed in isolation, and
> be
> it virtual or not makes no difference; what needs to know how to
> select
> "virtual" vs "physical" is the entity that creates the streams. For
> the
> portable approach, what is lacking is the API in
> org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast to request screen casting of a
> virtual
> monitor, and in the GNOME case, the hooks to
> org.gnome.Mutter.ScreenCast
> (implemented in xdg-desktop-portal-gtk) to record from a virtual
> monitor
> instead of a real one.
> 
> If you're interested in prototyping that let me know, so I can
> describe
> in detail how it could work.

Unfortunately, my skills are by far insufficient to be useful: I have
limited programming experience, and none in this field.

The most I can do and did was to "popularize" a bit the current state
of things: https://superuser.com/a/1652951/289928

Pietro



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