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by HMH 1609 days ago
Shameless plug: I created a pretty similar piece of software: Weylus [1].

Additionally to mirroring the screen touch input is forwarded, so you can use your tablet as graphic tablet for your computer. I only use it on Linux so that's where it works best. It comes as a single (mostly) statically linked binary with a minimal gui (and headless mode via command line) and is written in Rust (do I still get brownie points for that?).

[1]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

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Was shopping for tablets online today for use with Blender and they’re not cheap. Thought why couldn’t I use my iPad as an input.

This looks awesome. Any chance it’s pressure sensitive?

Edit: Was looking in the wrong place to see if it had pressure sensitivity. The answer is yes it does!

Weylus is awesome. Works really well and pipewire, hardware encoding support are huge bonuses.

The killer feature which sets it apart from deskreen is a way to run it as a service on Linux. Last I checked, it was practically impossible to use deskreen on a headless machine.

Do you support screen flipping, e.g, when using the iPad as a teleprompter?

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