DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing • Hacker News Board

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Post by nixosbestos » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 5:57 PM UTC

delusional wrote: post #4

What an intriguing idea. I wonder if I could do something similar on linux by placing a second monitor on top of my current one with xrandr.

It's too easy to just use OBS for this, in my opinion. Add the pipewire display capture, add a filter to crop it to a corner, stretch that container to fit the stage, open the window in the corner. Fairly simple.

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Post by garysahota93 » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 5:59 PM UTC

I really like this concept. especially for the use case where I need to share my whole screen, but just want a "sandbox" of sorts to share. Typically have gotten around this with a secondary monitor that I share with, but that doesn't work when I'm on the go with my laptop. Will def be using this

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Post by neallindsay » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #6

The title could clarify it's for MacOS X.

Linux users probably already have some weird workflow with X11 virtual buffers to do this.

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 6:08 PM UTC

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Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Post by rcarmo » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 6:08 PM UTC

transfire wrote: post #9

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could adjust resolution per window? On a 4k monitor some applications have tiny text and icons, and no way adjust that I can find.

I just went to Preferences and set the resolution of the virtual display to 1920x1080.

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Post by leptons » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 6:12 PM UTC

With my 6480 x 3840 (three 4k screens) desktop resolution, in Zoom I just select "Share a portion of screen", and I can resize the area that gets shared to something close to a common screen size.

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Post by imzadi » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 6:13 PM UTC

I need this. I have a 49" monitor and sharing the screen is such a pita

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Post by jauntywundrkind » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 6:14 PM UTC

neallindsay wrote: post #13

neilv wrote: post #6

The title could clarify it's for MacOS X.

Linux users probably already have some weird workflow with X11 virtual buffers to do this.

Yeah. On Wlroots or Sway, we can setup virtual displays pretty easily (swaymsg create_output, done). Run wayvnc, and both the other person and yourself connect over vnc or rdp to see what's over there.

Available May 2020, https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/7#issuecomment-6256611...