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

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

  • panda_abyss
    8·
    20 hours ago

    Can you run this headless, or do you need Wayland running?

    • garret@lemmy.ml
      6·
      14 hours ago

      You can. Look at “Games on Whales” github. I run it daily with that hosting in a server and streaming on my tv

    • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      15 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·
        13 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
        1·
        11 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·
          10 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
            2·
            9 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.