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I bought an LG monitor as it has "side-by-side" split screen, but of course, it doesn't work. Just let me config my screen in sections at the hardware or driver level, and accept them as different monitors
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Notched MBPs can't do HD through resolution changing. (I would love to be proven wrong on this. See my other comment for hoops I jump through to get around this.)
What exactly do you mean by "can't do HD?" I can set my display to 1728x1080. That's HD. I can also output my Mac to an HD TV, Projector, etc. And I have the notch on my MacBook Pro. Do you have some other definition of HD that I'm not understanding?
selection=$(slop -f %w,%h,%x,%y)
width=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 1)
height=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 2)
top=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 4)
left=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 3)
cvlc --no-video-deco --no-embedded-video --screen-fps=20 --screen-top=$top --screen-left=$left --screen-width=$width --screen-height=$height screen:// &
You can achieve something similar using vlc + slop on Linux, here's the script I usually use (I run i3 typically). selection=$(slop -f %w,%h,%x,%y) width=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 1) height=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 2) top=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 4) left=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 3) cvlc --no-video-deco --no-embedded-video --screen-fps=20 --screen-top=$top --screen-left=$left…
EDIT: As noted below by @cole-k, the situations aren't the same, because the parent comment here is talking about approximating DeskPad-like functionality on a platform not (currently) supported by DeskPad.
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…
You can achieve something similar using vlc + slop on Linux, here's the script I usually use (I run i3 typically). selection=$(slop -f %w,%h,%x,%y) width=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 1) height=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 2) top=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 4) left=$(echo "${selection}" | cut -d , -f 3) cvlc --no-video-deco --no-embedded-video --screen-fps=20 --screen-top=$top --screen-left=$left…
Brings to mind the infamous comment about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 EDIT: As noted below by @cole-k, the situations aren't the same, because the parent comment here is talking about approximating DeskPad-like functionality on a platform not (currently) supported by DeskPad.
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Brings to mind the infamous comment about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 EDIT: As noted below by @cole-k, the situations aren't the same, because the parent comment here is talking about approximating DeskPad-like functionality on a platform not (currently) supported by DeskPad.
I feel this is a little unfair to the parent as they are offering a solution for an unsupported platform.
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I often call into meetings where I am also presenting twice. Once on my phone and once from my computer. I use my computer for sharing, audio, video, etc. I use my phone to see what the other people see. Shared screens are always difficult to predict. If you have a 4K screen, it will almost always get downsampled somehow for meetings… it can be too slow otherwise. In my experience, the problem isn’t that the font is…
+1 to learning how to share a window, doing it fast when you’re changing windows, and reducing the size of the window. It shows that you care for the audience.
Combine that with a workflow that involves 2 or more windows (e.g., switching between a terminal & a browser … or just wanting to display them both at the same time¹), and it's not really workable.
¹… and while there's no technical reason I couldn't share two windows … there's no support for it.
Linux/X11: #!/bin/sh new_disp=:2 size="1600x900" unset XDG_SEAT XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE set - "$@" \ -noreset -br -ac -dpi 120 \ -xkb-layout us \ -screen "$size" \ "$new_disp" \ # Xephyr "$@" & sleep .5 export DISPLAY="$new_disp" metacity & urxvt & Metacity is kinda deprecated but still my "simple WM" of choice. You may need to set an xauth key for :2. ("xauth add :2 . ") (Script slightly edited & shortened, probabl…
See the MATE project. It's a continuation of GNOME before GNOME stopped being what made it wonderful. The fork of Metacity, specifically, is named "Marco".
I wonder if something like this could be done on Linux with xorg hackery (probably involving xvfb?). Definitely seems handy.
You can just start Xephyr, it gives you an X server in a window. Needs a few lines of setup around it to get a window manager or desktop session on that window.
It could "work" in the same vein, but the UX isn't as nice as what TFA's tool is, I think.