Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer
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What actions were you taking?
On all back browsers I know, you can just skip the redirect by holding the browser's back button and picking an item from your browsing history if you find this too problematic.
The back button not functioning made me:
- feel frustration and distrust
- associate those feelings with the product and its creator
- never want to use the product, despite being interested in it
Clearly, I'm not the only one who felt these kinds of things. It seems to have completely overshadowed the product.
My takeaway is this:
Do not ever alter fundamental UI behaviours of the browser.
Really? They made a bug on their website and you toss the whole product?
If the way they treat a new customer is to arrest control of my browsing experience and prevent me from leaving their site, I have zero trust in them. And trust is everything.
bugs not as much (unless it's a security product or someone who'd have access to my money).
It's kinda amusing how emotional people get with their back button.
I just don't care. Oh, it doesn't work? It's lame, but let me right click and survive this horror :)
For the record, that UX is poor in 2022. If something isn't accessibility friendly, by all means, people should be called on it so that they know it is a problem. It isn't like we're saying "it's shit," we're giving constructive criticism.
Does HN now have a minimum karma requirement to upvote comments?
Additionally to mirroring the screen touch input is forwarded, so you can use your tablet as graphic tablet for your computer. I only use it on Linux so that's where it works best. It comes as a single (mostly) statically linked binary with a minimal gui (and headless mode via command line) and is written in Rust (do I still get brownie points for that?).
This looks awesome. Any chance it’s pressure sensitive?
Edit: Was looking in the wrong place to see if it had pressure sensitivity. The answer is yes it does!
Cloning into 'Weylus'...The killer feature which sets it apart from deskreen is a way to run it as a service on Linux. Last I checked, it was practically impossible to use deskreen on a headless machine.
I get XSS attack warnings from NoScript because of how haphazardly they redirect login info between various domains: azure.com, outlook.com, windows.net, microsoft.com...it's almost comical.
Reminds me that i am really hoping to see some usable network transparency soon. Last time i looked at something like waypipe it seemed to be still clunky. But cloud gaming showed we should be there
Lots of discussion a year ago with input from the creator:
Then again... could ofcourse then also anydesk to each of them to change whatever they are showing.
For remote control just serve a simple iframe + javascript to poll for changes.
PS: Nice idea, seems like something you would see in a stereotypical hacker movie :)
Depending on your host OS, there _may_ be a way to create more displays that don't require physical video ports, but that doesn't seem to be documented or supported here.
Edit: OH! It's discussed here: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86
Until there is a bullet proof way of creating virtual displays, Deskreen isn't of much use to someone with my use case. Which is a damn shame. I really wanted to use an iPad as 2nd screen.
If "whatever is cheap" is what you are after a couple <$300 4k TVs will probably be better quality, cheaper, and easier to set up than 25 tablets.
(And I do mean _a browser_, not _a Chrome_)
> Mozilla Firefox Browser is currently not supported, due performance limitations.
:(
I can't stand mac os x, but my wife uses it whenever she can't use her ipad to do things. I tried for ages to use it as a secondary screen, but apple has removed that functionality.
This is a nice workaround that I wish I wouldn't need.
Firewall prevents opening port 3131. Wonder if there is any other eay to use my iPad as a second monitor...
Any device? Gauntlet thrown. I am very sure that I can find a device with a screen and a wifi dongle to which you cannot connect. Got a smartwatch?
"Available Disk Space: 210MB RAM: 250MB on average to run app with one screen sharing session. Every new screen sharing session will need upto 100MB of extra memory on average for smooth performance. CPU (Windows): any modern dual core CPU, weaker CPUs may have performance problems. CPU (MacOS): any modern CPU CPU (Linux): any modern CPU"
There it is. It can only connect to "modern" systems, probably limited to those built in the last decade or so. That isn't "any device" in my book. It isn't even every device in my office.
"Will Deskreen work on my 1st or 2nd generation IPads? Will Deskreen work on some really old device?
No. At the moment we are looking into solutions on how to add a support for really old screen viewing devices with old and outdated browsers. The problem is that WebRTC is not supported in old outdated web browsers, but we may fix this in the future. In future releases this issue may be fixed. Stay tuned. You can find updates in the following link: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/issues/90"
Or do you return a hat that reads "one size fits all" when you find a toddler whose head is too small for it?
I fail to see the need for such pedantry, at least put in such a way that seems very demeaning to the author (who, I note, does not appear to have English as their first language and so might have learned this turn of phrase by reading other advertising). If it bothers you that much, make a pull request to correct the record: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen
I had a court appearance last year that I needed to attend using software that "works on every device". Not linux. Not older macs. Not the older windows machines in all the small law offices.