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Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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I think the problem I have is more so that people want my font sizes to be 3x what I have them. Usually I’m presenting a spreadsheet (financial statements and such) and people ask me to zoom in. Which I can but it breaks the whole thing and throws me off because I can no longer read my document anymore and I’m trying to present it. For that reason, I evangelize that attendees use the Zoom feature on their device if i…

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Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

#43
I have an Intel MBP, so my first question is will this work on my legacy hardware? And my second question is will this act like a typical external display I connect to my MBP and set it on fire? As far as my experience goes, it's not behaving like an external display unless my CPU is occasionally pegged at 100%, fans are blasting, and my computer becomes intermittently unusable until I disconnect the display.

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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post #43

I have an Intel MBP, so my first question is will this work on my legacy hardware? And my second question is will this act like a typical external display I connect to my MBP and set it on fire? As far as my experience goes, it's not behaving like an external display unless my CPU is occasionally pegged at 100%, fans are blasting, and my computer becomes intermittently unusable until I disconnect the display.

I used to have an Intel MB, mid 2010. I had to disconnect the hdmi cable so it can boot, otherwise it would just blast the fan displaying the apple loading animation. It died on 2022 when i installed an update that asked for a restart and i forgot to disconnect and went on vacation. RIP Intel MPs. Amazing beasts.

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Xnest is probably enough. I've used it for similar purposes a few times. Don't know the equivalent for Wayland though.

Yes, Wayland compositors like cage and sway can be nested too.

That said, with both the X nesting approach and the Wayland nesting approach, you'd also need to run the screencasting application itself inside the nested server, not the just the application you want to cast. If the compositor supports a way to create headless outputs (as sway and hyprland do) that is much easier.

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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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.

But doesn’t that affect ALL windows?

Re: DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

#50

I’ve been using https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay for this purpose. Does something similar and more. Works great!

I know it can create a dummy display, but can it create a window on the real display showing the contents of the virtual display?

That seems to be the flagship feature of DeskPad.

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