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Sunshine and Moonlight - Bring Your Desktop's Power On the Go (cenotaph.cc)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Setting up Sunshine and Moonlight for high performance game streaming on Linux

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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    … 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months 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.

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