How to Create a Virtual Display for Sunshine on Arch Linux - Anton Ždanov
2026-04-29 20:40 UTC
Replies (7)
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@kcweller@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 21:12
Pretty dope idea! Might try this out soon!
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@nfreak@lemmy.ml 2026-04-29 21:35
Oh interesting. I’ve been doing this with a dummy HDMI plug for ages, and sure don’t fix what isn’t broken, but it’d be nice to set it up entirely virtually.
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@ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 21:39
Hey this sounds pretty great! I’m going to give this a shot.
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@Cyber@feddit.uk 2026-04-29 21:50
Hmmm. I have an issue with my media PC where if it’s turned on before the HDMI connected TV, then we can’t see the display… I wonder if this will fix that issue too by pretending the TV is always connected…
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@gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 22:04
I found this article nearly a year ago and have been using this method since, it works great. I use it to play games at my phone’s weird native resolution, and my wife uses it to play games at her macbook’s weird native resolution. I also have multiple systemd-boot configs to boot with or without it.
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@nitrolife@hikki.team 2026-04-29 22:30
You need virtual dislay so that meat that you don't connect video card to TV. Maybe best choice - use [wolf](https://games-on-whales.github.io/)? No DE, no display. Just GPU and podman.
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@technohacker@programming.dev 2026-04-30 03:02
Something I noticed recently is that Sunshine has added support for XDG Portal Screenshare access, meaning on KDE you can actually screen share a virtual display without needing anything configured on the hardware. You need to use the xdg-portal capture method, but I’ve tried it out with my phone before