Zorin OS and sunshine

Hi every one I new on zorin OS 18.1
I installed Sunshine with zero problem but ..when I try to login with my mobile with moonlight the mouse cursor won't show and won't respond ...I tried also from other laptop that uses bazzite and same problem ..is there a fix ? our should I use rust-desk instead ? thank you all in advance

Hi and welcome.

I am sorry but I have not heard of that application. Can you tell us what it is and what it does?

My first thought is that it may be due to the display protocol. The Gnome DE which Zorin uses defaults to the Wayland display protocol, but you can change this at login.

First select your username and you should see a cog appear lower right.
Left-click on the cog and you will see a dot against the first item, 'Zorin Desktop'. Left click on the second item, 'Zorin Desktop on xorg' and the dot moves to the new selection. You don't need to do this each time you login, it will stay like that until you decide you want to change back for any reason.

With regard to Bazzite I think like other 'bleeding edge' distributions they have removed xorg display protocol and only have Wyland available. Other distributions are being more sensible and either have replaced xorg with XLibre or in the process of doing so whilst maintaining Wayland as an option.

My other thought is whether you need to create a Firewall rule in respect of access via your phone.

For Wayland the last solution here may work (but I haven't tested it myself)

to add MUTTER_DEBUG_DISABLE_HW_CURSORS=1
to the file
/etc/environment
(you need root rights to do this)

But I'd first try to switch to Xorg if you are running on Wayland.

If sunshine is installed as flatpak, did you run the command shown here? Maybe it can help?

Or here I found a help site to solve problems in Linux:

e.g. to add your user to the input group.

sudo usermod -aG input $USER

(replace $USER with your username, e.g. roysolid)

Maybe you also need to create a udev rule as shown in the guide for Wayland.

first of all thank you

sunshine is streaming and I use it to remote control of my pc

it fix maybe it got messed up becuase I used first flatpack then appimage and .dep ...no I returend to flatpack and worked after restart lol

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thank you for all your help it's fixed

first did everything install flatpak and run the command and nothing happens

then appimage then .dep

but worid thing when returned to flatpak and then restart it works on my laptop and phone

thank you so much

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