create display from a text session

[john-peterson]

I currently let nomachine do it. It's a Jerry rig what kind of engineering would go into this? It would streamline my sseetup without this strange concoction

https://download.nomachine.com/download/8.5/Linux/nomachine_8.5.3_1_amd64.deb

DISPLAY=:1001 termit -e "sunshine -0"

I would like to reduce that to only

sunshine -0

I don't remember exactly the error message but I got the impression it can only piggy back on an existing display. Otherwise something breaks correct me if I'm wrong I have barely looked at the source

The first command gives something akin to

Screen casting with X
...
Encoding software found

The second

[2023:06:04:03:44:53]: Info: Trying encoder [software]
[2023:06:04:03:44:55]: Info: Encoder [software] failed
[2023:06:04:03:44:55]: Fatal: Couldn't find any working encoder

I also don't know Linux well enough I imagine a few commands could create the X display for me without involving the other screen encoders

If you could give me the command for creating an X session for sunshine to broadcast from. That would indicate what kind of engineering would be involved to do that internally