Setting up Sunshine and Moonlight for high performance game streaming on Linux

Setting up Sunshine and Moonlight for high performance game streaming on Linux

  • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    10 hours ago

    … what exactly do you intend to stream without a display server running? Yes you can run it headless, but you still need x11 or wayland obviously.

    • gazter@aussie.zone
      3·
      9 hours ago

      This might be a time when an ignorant point of view helps, like mine. I don’t know anything about Wayland- Is it like Zululand but where the Way tribe lives? Anyway, my naive assumption is OP was wondering if you can run it on a server that does not have a display plugged in.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
      1·
      7 hours ago

      I’m relatively new to Linux and this is deeper than a usual topic into a stack I don’t know.

      I have a server, it has a graphics card, and I already have steam running with GameScope so the whole app renders into a single frame buffer.

      I just don’t know how the graphics/app pipeline plumbing needs to work to be able to run that headlessly and stream it, which would be my ideal situation.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 hours ago

        For this to work you need a display to send through the network, but that display needs not be a physical one. So depending on your definition it can be run headless. If you meant without it being plugged to a display then yes, if you meant without having graphical stack installed then no (there would be no point to streaming display without a display).

        • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Thank you, and yes, I meant not needing to be plugged into an active monitor with mouse and keyboard running.

          I think from just this discussion I’m realizing some of what I didn’t know I didn’t know/misunderstood about the whole desktop system on Linux.