Streaming from a multi-monitor PC without picking a screen

Punktfunk gives each device its own virtual screen instead of capturing one of your monitors, and lets you decide what your monitors do meanwhile.

A host that captures one of your monitors has to be told which one. Pick wrong and you stream the wrong screen at the wrong resolution.

Its own screen, not one of yours

Punktfunk gives each device its own virtual screen at its resolution and refresh rate instead, and the pointer starts there. On the web console's Displays page, Your monitors while streaming decides the rest:

• Turn off: the stream is the only screen, so the pointer can't stray. Automatic, the default, does this.
• Stay on: the stream is an extra screen beside your monitors.
• Stay on, stream is main: the stream becomes the main screen.

The Workstation preset suits a multi-monitor daily driver, Shared desktop a PC someone also uses in person. Both give a second device its own screen. On Windows, Advanced keeps dark monitors from waking or stuttering mid-stream.

Streaming a real monitor

On a Linux host, Stream this monitor under Your monitors streams that monitor as it is. Windows hosts can't.

Full details: Virtual displays. Related: headless streaming on Linux.