Re: Multihead with wayland, similar to

2021-06-01 Thread Pietro Battiston
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 c

Re: Multihead with wayland, similar to

2021-06-01 Thread Jonas Ådahl
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 11:57:50AM +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Sorry if I'm bothering again with non-dev questions, but this should be > my last mail on the topic. I've more or less understand where we stand > but I need one further clarification: > > Il giorno gio, 27/05/2021 alle 08.23 +020

Re: Multihead with wayland, similar to

2021-06-01 Thread Simon Ser
On Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 at 10:33 AM, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Can you confirm that creating headless outputs is a specificity of Sway > (at least as far as you know)? So basically what's missing to GNOME is > the ability for mutter to create headless outputs? Or could/should > another softwa

Re: Multihead with wayland, similar to

2021-05-26 Thread Jonas Ådahl
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 08:01:39AM +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Dear devs, > > (not being an expert in Wayland at all) I have been trying in vain to > find a solution to use another device as an additional monitor for my > desktop. > > Other people seem to have tried, too¹ (trying to port to

Re: Multihead with wayland, similar to

2021-05-26 Thread Simon Ser
Hi, Many of Sway (and any wlroots-based compositor) users have set up an headless output plus wayvnc [1] for this use-case. In Sway, a headless output can be created via `swaymsg create_output`, and configured just like any other output. Simon [1]: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc