GNOME’s Native Screencasting Feature is Taking Shape

As you may be aware (or you may not – we all lead busy lives) one of GNOME’s Google Summer of Code projects for this year (2023) was to add support for screen casting.

And by jove: they’ve gone and done it!

The developer working on integrating network display functionality into GNOME Shell shared short video clip to the GNOME sub-reddit — and the implementation is looking, as kids in 2016 would say, lit.

As you can see from the video screenshots above, the feature adds a “screencast” button to the row of actions in the Quick Settings menu. Clicking this opens a modal picker where the user can select any Miracast or Chromecast compatible displays on the network.

Although I don’t know for sure, I’m going to assume that the screencast button will NOT appear if a compatible network display is not detected (the same way other buttons don’t appear if compatible hardware isn’t present).

Network Display Nirvana

Being able to ‘screencast’ the GNOME desktop would be useful when needing to share a presentation, a slideshow of photos, a web-browser, and so on. It’s also possible to use a network display as an external monitor (mirroring your main display or extending it).

You don’t need to wait until GNOME 45 is released to use network displays. The Network Display app on Flathub gives you same raw functionality (albeit sans Chromecast support, I think) right now. I’ve tried it and it works well enough for basic usage.

What this great GSoC effort does is integrate network display setup, connection, and controls with GNOME Shell directly, negating the need for a separate app entirely.

Exciting developments!

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