Linux or MAC OSX server

[fbgranado]

Hi,

Its possible to use a linux or Mac OS as a server?

If I compile the source code it will work?

Thanks

[phoboslab]

No. The grabber.c code to get pixel data from a window is quite Windows specific. You'd need to rewrite this for other OSes. The app_on_message() that "fakes" keyboard and mouse input, only works on Windows as well.

Everything else, i.e. the encoder and WebSocket server, should work cross platform.

[jaredly]

Could you add something to the readme (or the GH summary line) saying this is Windows-only? That would be helpful.

[phoboslab]

@jaredly good idea. The summary now reads: A low latency, high framerate screen sharing server for Windows and client for browsers

[jaredly]

awesome thanks!

[n1trux]

Could the screen grabbing on Linux be possible with xlib? https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/

[g4jc]

I would also be interested in GNU/Linux support! This is a very nice program.

[Xeddius]

I would love GNU/Linux and Mac support! ffmpeg can already grab the screen natively on linux. So that solves the screen-grabbing issues. Which just leaves support for the input emulation, which I believe xdotool can solve! xdotool key alt+Tab would simulate pressing Alt+Tab! xdotool also supports emulating mouse movement as well as relative movement (required for some games).

[alexsarmiento]

WinPR (Windows Portable Runtime) by FreeRDP should help to solve this kind of portability issues.

[thesauri]

In case this is still relevant to anyone, I did a semi-complete port to Linux a couple of years ago that should still work: https://github.com/thesauri/jsmpeg-vnc-linux