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PlsBePatientISkippedLunch

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Registered: 2022-10-11

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Game streaming that's not visible on the host?

Hi all, I recently took the plunge to de-Windows my tower and it's been going pretty well so far. One of my weirder Windows quirks was my game streaming set up: my tower is in a less private room than my streaming client. In the interest of keeping my play habits to myself, what I ended up doing on Windows is having a 3rd dummy monitor output, and an AutoHotKey script that moves newly opened game windows to that monitor.

I'm sure something equivalent is doable in Linux, but I'm wondering about alternatives. E.g. is there a way to hook Steam Play / Sunshine (/ something else I should be considering?) to set up a script that turns off monitors for the duration of the streaming session (while still rendering to them)? Or is there a way to have the streaming server launch a separate desktop session for the same Arch user? I'd also consider a separate user account but that seems like it'd involve config syncing that could get messy.

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: Game streaming that's not visible on the host?

Gnome has something called "native headless backend", but I don't know if this is what you're looking for, 3D games and all.