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FSdesktop v0.5.0 - Onscreen Keyboard, DPI Settings and Always-On-Top Mode

10 Dec 17:26
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This utility expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings all your favorite desktop applications right into your VR cockpit. Visit https://fsdesktop.com to learn more 🚀

FSdesktop can

  • enable you to watch your favorite streamers,
  • help you to follow along YouTube tutorials,
  • show you streamers out there your Twitch or YouTube chat
  • make those long distance flights a bit more entertaining by letting you stay in touch with your Discord communities
  • display your vPilot client
  • show you your LittleNavMap flight plans
  • ... and much, much more

right inside your Flight Simulator cockpit! This is is especially helpful for those of us who like to fly in VR (and thus not being able to look at a second screen).

v0.5.0

MAJOR

  • added onscreen keyboard
  • added always on top option for server window
  • added manual DPI settings

FSdesktop v0.4.0 - Extended Input Processing and UI Scaling in VR

30 Mar 12:56
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This utility expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings all your favorite desktop applications right into your VR cockpit. Visit https://fsdesktop.com to learn more 🚀

FSdesktop can

  • enable you to watch your favorite streamers,
  • help you to follow along YouTube tutorials,
  • show you streamers out there your Twitch or YouTube chat
  • make those long distance flights a bit more entertaining by letting you stay in touch with your Discord communities
  • display your vPilot client
  • show you your LittleNavMap flight plans
  • ... and much, much more

right inside your Flight Simulator cockpit! This is is especially helpful for those of us who like to fly in VR (and thus not being able to look at a second screen).

v0.4.0

MAJOR

  • added a new "run as administartor" mode for the FSdesktop input processor (which has been extracted into a separate process) to improve compatibiliy particularly with application that, themselves, run with elevated privileges.
  • added a slider to the core application to adjust the ingame panel's UI scale

FSdesktop v0.3.0 - Improved Input Recognition And Burger Menu

09 Feb 09:57
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This utility expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings all your favorite desktop applications right into your VR cockpit. Visit https://fsdesktop.com to learn more 🚀

FSdesktop can

  • enable you to watch your favorite streamers,
  • help you to follow along YouTube tutorials,
  • show you streamers out there your Twitch or YouTube chat
  • make those long distance flights a bit more entertaining by letting you stay in touch with your Discord communities
  • display your vPilot client
  • show you your LittleNavMap flight plans
  • ... and much, much more

right inside your Flight Simulator cockpit! This is is especially helpful for those of us who like to fly in VR (and thus not being able to look at a second screen).

v0.3.0

MAJOR

  • improved input recognition on Windows 11 machines
  • added selector for input processing speed to core application's settings tab
  • moved ingame panel settings (background color, framerate, and quality controls) to "burger menu"

MINOR

  • changed ingame panel's stream quality default setting to "high"
  • improved ingame panel tab selector
  • migrated the entire ingame panel GUI from vanilla javascript to react

FSdesktop v0.2.0 - Mouse Wheel Support, Settings Panel, Background Color Adjustments

13 Jan 10:34
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This utility expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings all your favorite desktop applications right into your VR cockpit. Visit https://fsdesktop.com to learn more 🚀

FSdesktop can

  • enable you to watch your favorite streamers,
  • help you to follow along YouTube tutorials,
  • show you streamers out there your Twitch or YouTube chat
  • make those long distance flights a bit more entertaining by letting you stay in touch with your Discord communities
  • display your vPilot client
  • show you your LittleNavMap flight plans
  • ... and much, much more

right inside your Flight Simulator cockpit! This is is especially helpful for those of us who like to fly in VR (and thus not being able to look at a second screen).

v0.2.0 Changelog

MAJOR

  • added mouse wheel support
  • added a switch to select between a white and a black background for the streamed window
  • improved the layout of the window picker for the default size of FSdesktop's ingame panel in VR

MINOR

  • added a settings page to the main application
  • added a dropdown menu to select the active log level and also access the log folder with a click of a button
  • added a button to restart the tour
  • migrated the entire server GUI from vanilla javascript to react

Improved Window Fitting, Settings Persistence, and Update Checker

13 Nov 11:51
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This utility expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings all your favorite desktop applications right into your VR cockpit. Visit https://fsdesktop.com to learn more 🚀

FSdesktop can

  • enable you to watch your favorite streamers,
  • help you to follow along YouTube tutorials,
  • show you streamers out there your Twitch or YouTube chat
  • make those long distance flights a bit more entertaining by letting you stay in touch with your Discord communities
  • display your vPilot client
  • show you your LittleNavMap flight plans
  • ... and much, much more

right inside your Flight Simulator cockpit! This is is especially helpful for those of us who like to fly in VR (and thus not being able to look at a second screen).

v0.1.0

MAJOR

  • improved the rendering canvas so that it will always fit the available screen real estate "from inside", i.e. users won't see any vertical overflow anymore
  • store resolution and refresh rate settings to "survive" across sessions
  • hide resolution and refresh rate selection buttons by default, reveal only on hover
  • added an update checker which checks for available updates for FSdesktop
  • hide serial number once submitted to prevent unintentional leaking by content creators or people seeking advice etc.

MINOR

  • make FSdesktop trial period "version-based", i.e. the trial period will reset for every new version
  • show version number in title bar
  • remove default application menu bar
  • changed default server port to less commenly used port 9670
  • catch any unexpected errors on the process level and show a user-friendly dialog with a hint to restart FSdesktop and on how to get support

Installer Hotfix

27 Oct 09:46
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This utility expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings all your favorite desktop applications right into your VR cockpit. Visit https://fsdesktop.com to learn more 🚀

FSdesktop can

  • enable you to watch your favorite streamers,
  • help you to follow along YouTube tutorials,
  • show you streamers out there your Twitch or YouTube chat
  • make those long distance flights a bit more entertaining by letting you stay in touch with your Discord communities
  • display your vPilot client
  • show you your LittleNavMap flight plans
  • ... and much, much more

right inside your Flight Simulator cockpit! This is is especially helpful for those of us who like to fly in VR (and thus not being able to look at a second screen).

Changelog v0.0.2

  • HOTFIX: updated installer GUID to allow for a separate installation when FSKneeboard is already installed

Initial Release (Early Access)

21 Oct 10:27
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This utility expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings all your favorite desktop applications right into your VR cockpit.

FSdesktop can

  • enable you to watch your favorite streamers,
  • help you to follow along YouTube tutorials,
  • show you streamers out there your Twitch or YouTube chat
  • make those long distance flights a bit more entertaining by letting you stay in touch with your Discord communities
  • display your vPilot client
  • show you your LittleNavMap flight plans
  • ... and much, much more

right inside your Flight Simulator cockpit! This is is especially helpful for those of us who like to fly in VR (and thus not being able to look at a second screen).