Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer

Re:Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for you... by HMH on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:45PM (#30066353)

Shameless plug: I created a pretty similar piece of software: Weylus [1].

Additionally to mirroring the screen touch input is forwarded, so you can use your tablet as graphic tablet for your computer. I only use it on Linux so that's where it works best. It comes as a single (mostly) statically linked binary with a minimal gui (and headless mode via command line) and is written in Rust (do I still get brownie points for that?).

[1]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

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Re:Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for you... by programmarchy on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:48PM (#30066850)

Was shopping for tablets online today for use with Blender and they’re not cheap. Thought why couldn’t I use my iPad as an input.

This looks awesome. Any chance it’s pressure sensitive?

Edit: Was looking in the wrong place to see if it had pressure sensitivity. The answer is yes it does!

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Re:Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for you... by jck on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:39AM (#30072232)

Weylus is awesome. Works really well and pipewire, hardware encoding support are huge bonuses.

The killer feature which sets it apart from deskreen is a way to run it as a service on Linux. Last I checked, it was practically impossible to use deskreen on a headless machine.

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Re:Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for you... by news_hacker on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:02AM (#30101361)

Do you support screen flipping, e.g, when using the iPad as a teleprompter?

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Re:Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for you... by DarylZero on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:25AM (#30071495)

    Cloning into 'Weylus'...

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