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Currently only entire displays and specific windows (one or multiple of them). But happy to look into this - what would you share only partially for example?

mrleinad 3y ago
Specifically, I have a 49" ultrawide monitor and a VM in it. If I share the entire VM, other people with smaller monitors see it too small and have to zoom. If I resize the VM, I have to reposition my windows inside it. It's easier to share a portion of the screen, it's what I do in Zoom. A portion of a window would work too.
- seinfish 3y ago
  Max here from CoScreen. I'm with you, sharing a portion of the screen or window would be very useful for this scenario. I can also imagine running CoScreen from the VM itself, but that would only work for Mac and Windows VMs at this point (Audio and video could still go through your physical machine —— i.e. you would connect with two users). We also have a headless Linux client in the pipeline that could serve to connect the VM directly.
  - mrleinad 3y ago
    Connecting with 2 users would work. I would still need to resize the window I'm sharing (the reason I have that big ass monitor is to use VS maximized and have everything open), but it's easier than resizing all windows.
rkagerer 3y ago
I do this all the time in Zoom, to share PowerPoint presentations at the correct scale and without exposing my speaker notes, and to share YouTube videos from Firefox without showing the "chrome" portion surrounding the video. My side monitors are oriented vertically, so if I put those windows in fullscreen and try to share the whole monitor it doesn't come out correctly proportioned. This also provides a smoother experience without the "flicker" of going fullscreen and back (which can happen when you switch focus between windows). It's a similar use-case to the one bentcorner described above. The "share region" solution is admittedly a bit of a hack but it works. Love to find an easier solution to this scenario (especially a way to break out speaker notes into a floating window I could position right under my webcam). BTW apropos to nothing, I always loved the way the old Spy++ tool let you drag a reticle onto a control hWnd (reminiscent of how "Select an Element" works in Chrome DevTools) - that was a neat mechanism to quickly select a perfectly carved out region of an app without having to draw a box, but alas these days with so many going Electron, and other non-standard presentation surfaces, it wouldn't be as useful anymore.
- coscreen 3y ago
  Fascinating, thanks for the detailed context. We'll look into it!

mrleinad 3y ago

Specifically, I have a 49" ultrawide monitor and a VM in it. If I share the entire VM, other people with smaller monitors see it too small and have to zoom. If I resize the VM, I have to reposition my windows inside it. It's easier to share a portion of the screen, it's what I do in Zoom. A portion of a window would work too.

seinfish 3y ago
Max here from CoScreen. I'm with you, sharing a portion of the screen or window would be very useful for this scenario. I can also imagine running CoScreen from the VM itself, but that would only work for Mac and Windows VMs at this point (Audio and video could still go through your physical machine —— i.e. you would connect with two users). We also have a headless Linux client in the pipeline that could serve to connect the VM directly.
- mrleinad 3y ago
  Connecting with 2 users would work. I would still need to resize the window I'm sharing (the reason I have that big ass monitor is to use VS maximized and have everything open), but it's easier than resizing all windows.

rkagerer 3y ago

I do this all the time in Zoom, to share PowerPoint presentations at the correct scale and without exposing my speaker notes, and to share YouTube videos from Firefox without showing the "chrome" portion surrounding the video. My side monitors are oriented vertically, so if I put those windows in fullscreen and try to share the whole monitor it doesn't come out correctly proportioned. This also provides a smoother experience without the "flicker" of going fullscreen and back (which can happen when you switch focus between windows). It's a similar use-case to the one bentcorner described above. The "share region" solution is admittedly a bit of a hack but it works. Love to find an easier solution to this scenario (especially a way to break out speaker notes into a floating window I could position right under my webcam). BTW apropos to nothing, I always loved the way the old Spy++ tool let you drag a reticle onto a control hWnd (reminiscent of how "Select an Element" works in Chrome DevTools) - that was a neat mechanism to quickly select a perfectly carved out region of an app without having to draw a box, but alas these days with so many going Electron, and other non-standard presentation surfaces, it wouldn't be as useful anymore.

coscreen 3y ago
Fascinating, thanks for the detailed context. We'll look into it!