I wanted to create a virtual display for Sunshine and came across this article. It looks like no one has linked it here before 🙂
Oh interesting. I’ve been doing this with a dummy HDMI plug for ages, and sure don’t fix what isn’t broken, but it’d be nice to set it up entirely virtually.
I’ve done both ways and the dummy plug is much less hassle in my opinion. Not a universal solution though. My GPU has only one HDMI port.
I found this article nearly a year ago and have been using this method since, it works great. I use it to play games at my phone’s weird native resolution, and my wife uses it to play games at her macbook’s weird native resolution.
I also have multiple systemd-boot configs to boot with or without it.
Something I noticed recently is that Sunshine has added support for XDG Portal Screenshare access, meaning on KDE you can actually screen share a virtual display without needing anything configured on the hardware. You need to use the xdg-portal capture method, but I’ve tried it out with my phone before
Hey this sounds pretty great! I’m going to give this a shot.
Pretty dope idea! Might try this out soon!
