Elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution. Some of its more interesting features include a custom desktop environment called Pantheon and many custom apps including Photos, Music, Videos, Calendar, Terminal, Files, and more. It also comes with some familiar apps like the Epiphany web browser and a fork of Geary mail.
- Dec 25, 2017 elementary OS Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for developers and users of elementary OS and applications. Can at least try to check if your mirror is.
- Enable snaps on elementary OS and install alfacast screen mirror. Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Share and split your screen to many devices simultaneously. App allows you to broadcast and to watch any content from desktop. Stay secure with alfacast while watching live streaming, the app supports end-to-end encryption technology. Automatic discovery of network nodes will allow you to enjoy using the app. Forget about logins, installation and the long process of setup video broadcast servers, for alfacast it is simply not necessary. Stream your content from a video camera apps, photo albums apps, stream video from player apps, show presentations, slides, photos or pictures anywhere and anytime!
To stream video from apps, you need to open a third-party app. The alfacast will capture your screen with all the displayed content. You need to display content from a third-party app on the streamer device screen.
For example, if you want to stream video from a camera, follow these steps on the streamer device:
- Run alfacast app and follow the instructions to use the app as a streamer
- Open the camera app and display it on the device screen. The alfacast app does not use your camera or access it
After that please follow these steps on your viewer device:
- Run alfacast app and follow the instructions to use the app as a viewer
- Select your streamer with a camera from the list of users in the alfacast app and watch the screen cast from the camera
alfacast features
Manjaro
- Remote desktop audio / video streamer solution
- Remote desktop audio / video viewer or playback solution
- Serverless multichannel peer-to-many streaming technology
- Serverless single channel peer-to-peer streaming technology
- Full free
- Video streamer & viewer up to SD quality
- Universal client-server iptv-like app
- Automatic discovery of users on the local network
- Secure connection with end-to-end AES-128 encryption technology
- Supported platforms: Android / Android TV / Fire OS / iOS / macOS / tvOS / Linux / Windows
- Supported device types: Mobile / Tablet / iPhone / iPad / Desktop / Laptop / Xbox / Set Top Box / Raspberry Pi
- Supported device brands: Apple / Amazon / ASUS / Google / Huawei / LG / Meizu / Microsoft / Motorola / Nokia / Nvidia / Philips / Samsung / Xiaomi / Sony / Others
For arm cpu based boards / raspberry pi users
alfacast app uses hardware accelerated codec and you have to enable it manually. Please copy and run this command in terminal:
sudo snap connect alfacast:camera :camera
After that you can run and use alfacast app.
Miscellaneous
- To switch streamer into multichannel mode please click on Multichannel Streamer [Sidebar menu]
- To select audio & video streaming devices please follow: Settings [Sidebar menu]->Streamer
- To get more info about app please follow: App Instruction [Sidebar menu]
elementary OS has long been viewed by many as the future of Linux on the PC thanks to its beautiful desktop environment and overall polished experience. Development of the Ubuntu-based operating system has been frustratingly slow, however. This shouldn't be surprising, really, as the team of developers is rather small, and its resources are likely much less than those of larger distributions such as the IBM-backed Fedora or Canonical's Ubuntu. And that is what makes elementary OS so remarkable -- its developers can make magic on a smaller budget.
Today, the latest version of the operating system is released. Code-named 'Hera,' elementary OS 5.1 is now available for download. Support for Flatpak is now baked in — this is significant, as the developers explain it is “the first non-deb packaging format we've supported out of the box.” The Linux kernel now sits at a very modern 5.0. One of the most important aspects of elementary OS, the AppCenter, is now an insane 10 times faster than its predecessor. Wow.
'elementary OS 5.1 Hera takes the same foundation as Juno -- utilizing the same underlying repositories and libraries—but builds on it with a refined experience. It is the culmination of our work over the past year packaged up into one cohesive update. As such, the 5.1 number represents that it’s a major update, but not an entirely new version (which usually come around every two years). It’s still significant enough, however, to deserve its own name and identity,' says Cassidy James Blaede, Co-founder and CXO, elementary.
Elementary Os Mirror App
Blaede further says, 'The newly redesigned login and lockscreen greeter looks sharper, works better, and fixes many reported issues with the previous greeter including focus issues, HiDPI issues, and better localization. The new design in Hera was in response to user feedback from Juno, and enables some nice new features. It now always shows usernames for all users, shows users’ backgrounds as cards so you can more easily find users who maybe haven’t set differentiating avatars, notifies when Caps or Num Lock are on, and makes “Log In as Guest” more distinct when it’s enabled.'
Apps are also a big focus of elementary and Blaede shares improvements below.
- Calendar received a major redesign that is brighter, cleaner, and more usable -- plus we've improved support for recurring events.
- Camera is now faster and compatible with many more webcam models.
- Photos has new checkerboard-backed translucent image previews and improved dialogs throughout the app.
- Music is greatly improved with more discoverable keyboard shortcuts, better performance, more reliability, and a fresh new orange accent color.
- Videos supports auto-queuing the next episode, plus improvements to keyboard navigation and audio track titles.
- Files is one of the first to support the new cross-desktop CloudProviders API which currently integrates with NextCloud.
- Code has more discoverable keyboard shortcuts and greatly expanded git integration.
- Terminal has better-exposed keyboard shortcuts and improved contrast.
Overall, the number of changes and improvements found in elementary OS 5.1 'Hera' is overwhelming -- I highly recommend reading the official announcement here for all the details. Quite frankly, it extremely impressive to see what the developers have accomplished in Hera. Make no mistake, even though this is technically a point release, the move from 5.0 to 5.1 is substantial. If you want to download it for yourself, you can get it here.