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add wayland message to deskreen
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Botspot committed Apr 24, 2024
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To run: Menu -> Programming -> Deskreen
To run in a terminal: deskreen

Does not work on Wayland, meaning it is fairly useless on Pi OS Bookworm unless you swiched to X11.

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theofficialgman Apr 24, 2024

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huh... it might be worth removing this application as it has not had an update in 2+ years and runs a old a bug ridden version of electron. newer versions of chromium/electron can capture the desktop on wayland sessions (pipewire screen capture) just like you see in other applications like OBS Studio.

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I have not found an actively maintained replacement for Deskreen yet. Let me know if you do.

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Uhh.... Isn't Deskreen just chrome remote desktop but with extra steps (or less features)
https://remotedesktop.google.com/?pli=1

or really Zoom, Teams, Anydesk, Teamviewer, moonlight/sunshine, VNC server/clients, etc.

the "extended desktop" mode for deskreen isn't unique and requires a dummy plug on the host and can be achieved in the exact same way with any other remote desktop software in the same manner.

This is privacy-friendly and does not use cloud resources, but it is written in Electron and consumes a lot of CPU processing power when in use. It is not suitable for Pi models older than the Pi4.

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