Show HN: Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux

It is written mostly in Rust, some C and a tiny bit Typescript and works by serving a webpage that uses the browser API to capture pen, touch and mouse events from the tablet. Additionally the desktop or a selected window is captured and encoded to a video stream via ffmpeg. This stream is played in the browser using the Media Source Extensions API.

This should also run on macOS and Windows but with very limited features.

This is awesome.

This is important enough I'd donate right now, if (1) there were a donate button (2) it'd fund further development to the point where this was production-ready.

Bringing this from proof-of-concept to mass-market would be a huge amount of work:

1) From the video, latency would need to go way down.

2) Pressure support is important, if not critical.

3) Packaging. To be impactful, this would want to be distributed in Apple's store, and in Debian/Ubuntu repositories (or at least a .deb). Paid on the Apple side is fine (and not contrary to open source -- I'm paying for convenience, and that's a payment I'd gladly make).

Next step would be to go from mirroring to second display. This is less bad than it might seem on the surface; it doesn't involve a whole new X driver, so long as outputting from the current one to a phantom device, and mirroring the phantom display (same thing as if I unplugged one of my monitors; HDMI keeps going out, and I could continue to mirror it).

One possible way to get there is to get the architecture to a place where others can do that work (e.g. leave appropriate places for people to plug in, and appropriate breadcrumbs where others can finish the work).

Disclaimers: Of course, one donation isn't enough to fund further development. I'm not rich, so we're not talking massive donation. Aside from that, by the time you set something up, I'll likely be long gone from this discussion (you don't have my contact info to follow up). But that's also not an abstract comment; I donated to Digimend before, and this would address part of the same major gap. Take the offer more as an indication of the massive value this would provide to at least one person.

Just install the Steam Link app, and then minimize the Steam app. Now you have access to your computer from your tablet.

- have a qrcode when running the server instead of displaying the url, much more practical

- have a "relative cursor mode" to behave like a usual trackpad, where you move the cursor from its current position. I am not interested in seeing my display on the phone, just use it as a trackpad while looking at my display.

I've researched the possibilities for something similar a few months back but my idea was far far simpler, just avoiding the need for an app to scribble things down in a web app. Also, unlike you I didn't finish.

Hats off to you, for me this is one of those twice a year moments on HN where I see something utterly brilliant that no one else though about!

This seems almost perfect for such a setup. You can even get a graphics tablet for little money, since those 8-10" intel atom windows tablets from 2013 or so are super cheap now! Lag doesn't look so bad. Wayland support will be a huge headache, but is not a huge problem yet as long as you can run many apps via XWayland.

In an ideal world, Xournal++ would have a modern web-based front-end as opposed to GTK (which currently means it's de-facto Linux-only until GTK resolves issues with Windows pen/inking APIs).

As a Linux user, the iPad pro writting feedback is probably the only thing I envy from Apple's users. What they did is black magic.

Need to see if this works with PostmarketOS and off to buy one old tablet.