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Show HN: Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux

8 pointsby HMHabout 5 years ago

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HMHabout 5 years ago
Hi HN, I created this program out of my personal need to be able to do some handwriting on my Linux system. I know, I could just have bought a graphic tablet but as I already have a tablet with the necessary hardware for note taking around I was unwilling to do so. And after quite some fruitless search for a solution to this problem Weylus (= Web + Stylus) was born.<p>It is written mostly in Rust, some C and a tiny bit Typescript and works by serving a webpage that uses the browser API to capture pen, touch and mouse events from the tablet.<p>One thing I am not too happy with is streaming the screen back to the tablet, so you can see what you&#x27;r doing. Currently this is just a PNG stream over websockets, if you got better ideas I am all ears!<p>This should also run on macOS and Windows but with very limited features.