Beam Eye Tracker gets Linux and macOS support

2.6.5

• Fixed an issue where Retina and mixed-scale multi-display layouts could cause correctly arranged screens to overlap or become misaligned, making multi-display features unreliable. (Linux, macOS).
• Multi-Screen Pointer and Presence Detection now work on Linux and macOS. (Linux, macOS).
• When a feature requires additional permissions, Beam provides an explicit Grant Permission action. This includes Camera, Input Monitoring, and Accessibility permissions. (macOS).
• The full-screen Calibration interface now stays on the current desktop Space for a smoother experience. (macOS).
• Webcam management now configures the preferred resolution and frame rate more reliably. You may need to reselect your webcam in Tracker Settings. (macOS).
• Compatibility-environment discovery and configuration are now faster and can be controlled dynamically from the user interface. This also fixes filesystem-access issues with Steam on Linux. (Linux, macOS).
• Changes in the Productivity and Privacy and Eye Tracking Overlay settings now save automatically instead of requiring you to click Save.
• Fixed the blank window that appeared when relaunching Beam Eye Tracker from the Windows Start menu and the title bar that appeared in the Calibration window. (Windows).

2.6.4

• You no longer need to find and enter a Wine prefix and runner manually. Launch the game or its launcher while Beam is running, and Beam detects and configures the environment automatically. The add (+) button now explains this simpler workflow instead of opening a manual configuration form. (Linux).
• Changing or removing the Beam driver in a Wine or Proton environment now takes a few seconds instead of up to 60 seconds. (Linux).
• Fixed an issue that caused full-screen overlays to appear black on some systems. (Linux).
• Beam no longer crashes when a webcam advertises a video format that the app cannot safely process. Unsupported formats are ignored, and cameras with no usable formats are no longer offered for selection. (Windows).
• A newer bundled Microsoft GameInput installer is expected to fix Beam updates that failed on some Windows versions while handling a possible GameInput downgrade. We are still validating this on affected systems. (Windows).