In Operation
How does Deskreen work?
Deskreen works via screen recording technology to live stream the screen picture. Essentially Deskreen fires up a web server that other devices connect to. This client-server relationship is commonplace with Linux. But its implementation is electrifying.
Starting up Deskreen launches the window shown below.
The tool displays a QR code and an IP address that lets you connect other devices with a web browser to stream your screen.
After scanning the QR or entering the IP address in the browser’s address bar, you’ll be asked to allow or deny the connection.
Click the Allow button to allow the connection. We now have the choice of streaming the entire screen or a specific application window.
There’s a flip mode that’s designed to use your screen as a teleprompter.
There’s also dark mode, the ability to reduce the video quality (to improve speed), as well as internationalization support.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Summary
Complete list of articles in this series:
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| lnav | Advanced log file viewer for the small-scale; great for troubleshooting |
| Paperwork | Designed to simplify the management of your paperwork |
| Abricotine | Markdown editor with inline preview functionality |
| mdless | Formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files |
| fkill | Kill processes quick and easy |
| Tusk | An unofficial Evernote client with bags of potential |
| Ulauncher | Sublime application launcher |
| McFly | Navigate through your bash shell history |
| LanguageTool | Style and grammar checker for 30+ languages |
| peco | Simple interactive filtering tool that's remarkably useful |
| Liquid Prompt | Adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh |
| Ananicy | Shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities |
| cheat.sh | Community driven unified cheat sheet |
| ripgrep | Recursively search directories for a regex pattern |
| exa | A turbo-charged alternative to the venerable ls command |
| OCRmyPDF | Add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs |
| Watson | Track the time spent on projects |
| fontpreview | Quickly search and preview fonts |
| fd | Wonderful alternative to the venerable find |
| scrcpy | Display and control Android devices |
| duf | Disk usage utility with more polished presentation than the classic df |
| tldr | Simplified and community-driven man pages |
| lsd | Like exa, lsd is a turbo-charged alternative to ls |
| broot | Next gen tree explorer and customizable launcher |
| Deskreen | Live streaming your desktop to a web browser |