Open Source Alternative to Chromecast, Mirror Desktop and Play media r
The idea is to replicate what Chromecast can do in regards to screen mirroring and streaming media to a remote display. Google chromes screen mirroring feature works well when used with a receiver such as Chromecast but this is a proprietary solution and audio does not work for desktop mirroring on some operating systems. At the moment, there is only a client for Debian/Ubuntu Operating systems and a server/receiver application for Raspberry pi.
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install the .deb files with dpkg -i "retrosharefilename".deb
if necessary make a "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" to update your system for all
how to start it in a detached screen session:
screen -t retroshare -dmS RetroShare retroshare -display :0
If you run headless, i suggest to use X11VNC to control it remote.
or use the nogui binary
Files available for download:
RetroShare-Gui
RetroShare-NoGui
RetroShare-Plugins