Vesktop 1.5.2 greatly improves screensharing on Linux

2 years ago by d3Xt3r to c/linux_gaming

What's Changed Fixed scrollbars looking wrong (actually Discord's fault) Tray: Added left click hide/show feature by @0bCdian in #404 MacOS: Fixed the app not properly requesting microphone permis...

Vesktop is a custom Discord App with an aim to give better performance and support on Linux.

v1.5.2 fixes various audio issues related to screensharing and also overhauls video streaming with various fixes/improvements:

Fix resolution and framerate selection

Fix bug that stops users from changing the streamed window (created by allowing resolution changes)

Fix bug where changing windows allows you to lower the fps but not raise it

Beautify modal for starting a stream(show preview and content type as a dropdown)

Fix issue where stream quality overlay does not update to show the current quality of the running stream

Enable contentHint and allow the user to choose between "motion" and "detail"

Allow users to start streams while watching another stream

Amaterasu 18 points 2 years ago

I'll sound a downer but it lost me on "Discord App"

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muhyb 9 points 2 years ago

Not at all! Developers should stay away from that abomination, especially open-source devs.

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SomeGuy69 2 points 2 years ago

I choked and had to double read it.

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zelifcam 17 points 2 years ago

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CarlosCheddar 10 points 2 years ago

My friends can finally see and see my streams with this update. Before it was a choppy mess.

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SmoochyPit 6 points 2 years ago

Gonna give this a try! I’ve been jumping between clients on my Hyprland desktop… rn I can’t do global PTT on any third-party apps, despite Hyprland passing the input through to the app exclusively. I haven’t even looked at Vesktop, though!

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deanne 5 points 2 years ago

screensharing with sound works well, been using this since the past weeks

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victorz 2 points 2 years ago

Screen sharing in Discord didn't work on Linux? Works for me? Or what am I missing?

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HouseWolf 6 points 2 years ago

Audio on screen share doesn't work on the vanilla client

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victorz 1 point 2 years ago

Oh really. I gotta test that. That's weird.

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just_another_person 2 points 2 years ago

Just saw this show up in my Flatpak stream today. Will give it a go.

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HouseWolf 1 point 2 years ago

Have you been able to update the flatpak version yet? I also get the pop-up when launching Vesktop telling me there's an update. But when I when I try update through flathub it says I'm on the newest version already.

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just_another_person 1 point 2 years ago

Mine seems to match the latest version. Check logs?

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toothpaste_sandwich 2 points 2 years ago

I have been looking for a way to control my computer from the couch, using my phone... But this also isn't it. VNC just doesn't work yet with Wayland, unfortunately. And Rustdesk also didn't quite work, last time I tried it.

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Hominine 9 points 2 years ago

I use kde connect and/or sunshine myself.

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CarlosCheddar 3 points 2 years ago

Also a Sunshine user and it works pretty well. For gaming the most seamless experience is Steam Play though but sadly it’s not as good as Sunshine.

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toothpaste_sandwich 1 point 2 years ago

Thanks, I tried Sunshine and it seems to work better! Any chance you have experience with switching between monitors with the Android Moonlight client?

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Hominine 2 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, no, I assign one monitor that stays asleep unless I intentionally wake it. Most of my use case these days is streaming my desktop remotely over wireguard. Good luck tinkering!

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