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I'm on Xfce (X) with three monitors. When I share I can pick just the right-most. Shares everything in that panel. Just need to be careful what is on 3. Then, I zoom in the app (browser, VCCode) for viewers.
But I like this idea of a virtual, so I don't accidentally leak a window I shouldn't.
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.
It would be so nice if we could stop destroying the planet by dropping support for legacy Macs. Mine is a 2014 Air and I'll stop using it when it crumbles to dust.
This is great; though I have less need for it day to day now. I used to have 49" 5120x1440 display. We started with Zoom, which under Advanced would allow partial desktop sharing. I would draw a 1920x1080 box and move windows in and out of the box. We moved to Teams and Teams only supports Window or Screen sharing. DeskPad would work great for that situation. Create a virtual display, share it and then use it on righ…
Why do change the resolution instead of the scaling?
You pick the “effective resolution“ of the display, but the native screen resolution is always used and the DPI is changed to scale things up or down until they are scaled the same they would be on a monitor of the chosen resolution.
There are a few choices in that list, denoted by “(low resolution)” or something, which set the indicated resolution and leave scaling at 100%. Those look horrific on MacOS but they are options.
I've gotten away with simply firing up OBS and "screen sharing" the virtual camera. Has worked fine on Zoom and Slack huddles, with the added benefit of giving me other things that OBS can provide: easy recording, scenes, text, source management, plugins, etc. For a casual conversation it's somewhat overkill, but when you're doing something more serious or formal, or need to switch between a keynote/Powerpoint and a…
> and actually rather easy to get going in. The other day I tried installing OBS on a Mac and this was not my experience. I couldn't even get it to recognize the built-in MacBook camera, much less share a screen or a mic or... I've successfully got OBS set up on Linux in the past and managed to get a simple workflow running, but even that took a lot of fiddling to get started and I had the darndest time finding what…
It would be so nice if we could stop destroying the planet by dropping support for legacy Macs. Mine is a 2014 Air and I'll stop using it when it crumbles to dust.
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You can do code blocks on HN by prefixing your lines with four spaces. #!/bin/bash swaymsg create_output OUTPUT=$(swaymsg -r -t get_outputs | jq '.[].name' | grep HEADLESS | tr -d '"') # No need to reduce res, it defualts to 1080p # swaymsg output "$OUTPUT" resolution 1280x720 wl-mirror "$OUTPUT" swaymsg output "$OUTPUT" unplug
Four spaces!? Absurd! Think of how many bytes you're wasting! In just your last code block your flooded the internet with 28 needless bytes!?!?!?!! If this keeps up soon we'll all just be downloading whitespace. Only two spaces are needed: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc function trim { sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' } /end sarcasm
After trying various solutions - including DeskPad - I came up with a custom cross-platform (I'm on macOS, but assume it'll work elsewhere) solution that worked incredibly well on my 40" ultrawide monitor: OBS[1]. Having never used OBS before but knowing it was popular among streamers, I wondered if I could use it to (1) only share the specific applications I wanted to share and (2) share them at a resolution that pe…
Why did you prefer this to DeskPad? I haven't tried either but have been looking for a solution for this without knowing it.
After trying various solutions - including DeskPad - I came up with a custom cross-platform (I'm on macOS, but assume it'll work elsewhere) solution that worked incredibly well on my 40" ultrawide monitor: OBS[1]. Having never used OBS before but knowing it was popular among streamers, I wondered if I could use it to (1) only share the specific applications I wanted to share and (2) share them at a resolution that pe…
When I'm teaching a class, I will share the screen that has the projector fully screened on it (which is normally the screen for my teleprompter (so I'm looking into the eyes of my students)). I have a bunch of scenes set up, so I can quickly change the scenes using my Stream Deck. You can make really smooth transitions, so I have a scene for:
- Full camera
- Full camera shifted ~60% to the right with a small desktop screen (where I'm showing my slideshow or code) on top
- Full desktop with face in upper right or lower right (another Stream Deck button to toggle face position)
- Full desktop, no face
I also have countdown timers that I can set from the command line when we are taking a break or waiting for the class to start.
OBS is awesome.
However, I also record many courses and must do them in HD res. Sadly, my MBP has a notch and won't natively do HD. OBS doesn't help with this (easily). My current solution (which I'm curious to try DeskPad to see if it is better) is to use the BetterDisplay app and create a "virtual screen" with HD dimensions. BD lets me "mirror" the virtual HD screen to my Mac monitor, and it magically resizes the dimensions correctly to HD.
It's a painful workaround (especially because every time my Mac or other monitors sleep, all of the orientations of the monitors and the mirroring of the virtual screen are forgotten).
I would love a way to tell my MBP screen to go HD, but to my knowledge, that doesn't appear possible.