Questions tagged [screen-sharing]

Screen Sharing is the term for allowing your display to be viewed remotely on a separate device. It is also the name of a Macintosh application for viewing a remote display.

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Is there a way to show notifications while screen sharing on Zoom on OSX?

There's a lot of resources to make sure that notifications don't pop up - Such as turning Do Not Disturb on and using third party apps. But I want to SHOW the notifications while I'm screen sharing on ...
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Is it there a log file for screensharing (vnc) with the incoming connections?

I found out that I had screensharing (vnc) turned on, Im using snow leopard, where can I see a log with all the incoming connections? or a log saying when it was enabled?
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How to disable (or at least close) "You are sharing another application window" floating bar?

In Firefox, when I'm on Google Chat or Jitsi and share my screen, Firefox shows me this annoying floating bar containing: You are sharing another application window I can minimize but not close it. ...
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Sharing a Display Remotely Over a Managed Network

We have a computer running at a remote site with the OS being RedHat Linux. We'd like to share the display remotely, back to our main site so engineers there can observe from one or more displays. The ...
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How can two users share their screen to each other simultaneously?

I haven't been able to find a screen sharing software where multiple users can share their screen (specifically, an application window) simultaneously while being able to see the other users' shared ...
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Blocking screen sharing when accessing a given website [closed]

The company I'm working has a paid product consisting of Windows virtual machines running on Azure. Clients pay for a subscription, receive credentials for accessing such machines through Apache ...
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Wireless connection among two or more laptops without internet

My question is that I want my two devices (laptops) to screenshare like whatever is shown on one laptop should be displayed on other like AnyDesk/TeamViewer. However I want this type of communication ...
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Screensharing under Wayland

I am using Wayland with Fedora 25. Pretty much no screensharing tool works correctly. From Chrome, I can share a Chrome window, but nothing else. I also have to use zoom.us and when I share a window ...
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Windows 10, connect to a projector by IP address

I have a Windows 10 machine and a projector. Both of them are connected to the same network (well, not exactly - addresses are: 10.5.50.45 and 10.5.51.20). And I need to share my screen on this ...
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Mac screen sharing keyboard shortcuts for switching screen do not work (CMD+OPTION+1,2)

I'm using a Mac Studio with two attached displays and an iMac which I use the access the Mac Studio via screen sharing. In order two switch in between both VNC streams of the displays of the Mac ...
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How to automatically disable notifications during screen sharing on Windows 10?

Is there a setting or an application for Windows 10 that automatically detects that I am sharing my screen and in that case hides or disables my Windows notifications? The app should also reactivate ...
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How can I enable screen sharing between two mac on different networks using VNC?

I have two mac with the same iCloud. First mac is M1 MacBook Pro with MacOS Monterey located in London. The second mac is MacBook Pro with MacOS Mojave located in Manchester. I need to do screen ...
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How can a Barco ClickShare device share different content to two different monitors?

(Not sure if this is the right community in StackExchange so direct me if in wrong place.) We have meeting rooms with two monitors up front. In the past we would show presentation on one monitor and ...
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postman window not visible when sharing desktop

I have a linux desktop running on Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon and I am using ZOOM application - specifically a screen share feature to share presentations and various content. Until this point I have not ...
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Zoom option greyed out: "Enter full screen when a participant shares screen"

In a Zoom meeting, my desktop Mac app's meeting window automatically enters Full Screen mode every time a meeting participant shares their screen. This is very annoying if I am working in a separate ...
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Command+tab, expose and many other functions stop working after screen sharing

When I'm away from my office mac I typically login via screen-sharing or VNC from home/another mac. Lately, after using screen sharing this way, my office mac will have several problems: Command+tab ...
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Has the behavior of using “Command+Tab” when using screen sharing changed in macOS Big Sur (11.1)?

This worked like a charm for a year: On my iMac, click “Share Screen” on my MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina (10.15.7). Whether in fullscreen or not, all the Command+Tab keystrokes switched between ...
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How to spy on a Mac from a PC

I have a desktop running Windows 7 and a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard. If someone is using my Macbook Pro, and from my Windows 7 machine I want to see what they see on their screen, is there a ...
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how do I make the display size bigger than 1920x1080 when screensharing on Mac

I have a main machine (Mac) and a few other machines I remote into. Windows is great, because it stores credentials, resizes when I size the window, and goes to the full resolution of the screen - ...
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Microsoft SharedView crashes now with IE9 RTM, what is a good alternative?

I've been quite reliant on MS SharedView. I have found it to be faster than VNC, and also allows for highlighting of the other person's screen without needing to take control of the mouse and can be ...
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Unlock keyring of auto-logged-in user

I want to be able to access my GNOME desktop remotely. The problem is that GNOME's screen sharing is using the keyring to store its password. As a result for sharing to work, the logged in user must ...
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How to share images in Zoom meetings showing only the image?

Is there a way to share an image so that other users only see the image? I mean, yes I know you can open this image with the "Windows Photos" app and share this window. But this is not very ...
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Video conferencing: how do I share my wide-screen display/desktop without it being scaled down for the recipients?

I'm a software developer and routinely video conference, sharing my entire desktop to show what several tools are doing at once. Unfortunately, I've come to realize that many of the common screen ...
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How to share a screen via zoom when no display is connected?

I was sharing my screen in Zoom from a PC. I have a KVM switch that lets me switch between my mac and my PC. But when I switched the display to my mac's screen, the shared image on Zoom wasn't updated....
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Mac OSX Screen Sharing: Does the remote screen display my actions?

During my work-from-home days, I use a Mac Mini at home to access my Mac workstation in my office through a VPN set up by my IT department at work. When I use OSX's Screen Sharing at home to control ...
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Is it possible to set up laptop and desktop on two monitors so that I can drag and drop files from one to other?

Sometimes I transfer pictures or files from my laptop to computer and after processing them I would store them back on my laptop, this would be much easier if I can do something like described above. ...
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Share monitors/keyboard/mouse between laptop and desktop

I have a work laptop (with WiFi) and a home desktop PC (with LAN + WiFi) - both Windows 10. I would like to share my desktop monitors/keyboard/mouse with the laptop, preferably being able to switch ...
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How can I fix my shaky mouse when presenting my work computer on Microsoft Teams

I have a shaky computer mouse when I am presenting in Microsoft Teams recently. These are the conditions when it happens: I'm using RDP to remote in to my work computer which is running Windows 10. I ...
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What does the "Optimize for full-screen video clip" option do in Zoom when sharing one's screen?

I read in the Zoom help about the option: Optimizing a shared video clip in full screen. What does the "Optimize for full-screen video clip" option do in Zoom when sharing one's screen? I'm ...
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Offload live streaming to phone or another computer?

I want to live stream something from an older hardware laptop that struggles to stream the screen while doing something else. So I wanted to offload the processing of the stream to either a phone or ...
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Webex floating windows cover parts of the screen for viewers while sharing

I have a strange issue with Webex screen sharing. I use the desktop client on Win10, but the issue is happening on other systems too. When I start screen sharing choosing an application window, not ...
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How to share the Zoom window itself in Zoom?

I want to interactively demonstrate how to use the Zoom meeting room controls to a Zoom meeting. However, Zoom doesn't seem to offer a way to share the actual Zoom window (the one you see when there ...
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Any way to duplicate different virtual desktops (or application windows) onto different monitors?

Right now I'm in a bit of a dilemma as I need to project some of my works to a big screen (a wireless 70" monitor sitting in the conference room in this case) to show the work progress to my ...
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How to grab Cmd-Tab on Macintosh instead of sending to Screen Sharing?

I am using the Screen Sharing application on a Macintosh running OS X Lion. I use Command-Tab to rotate between applications similarly to Alt-Tab on a Windows machine. However, when the Screen ...
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Sharing PC's screen with other users - RDC

Due to the pandemic, we are working from home, and I'm connecting to my work PC remotely using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDC). How can I share my work PC's screen with my colleagues? I want ...
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Cannot share screen as a co-host with Zoom Meeting on Linux

I'm using Zoom Meeting for Linux. Despite being co-host, I cannot do screen sharing. When I click on the Share icon, a message "Host disabled participant screen sharing" is displayed. Other ...
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How to turn off application minimization and keep it running in backgroud

How to turn off application minimization. I have an application that must run in the background (logitech screen share, never mind) but it deactivates when it is minimized and it breaks my other ...
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Realvnc changes keyboard layout when connecting to Mac OS High Sierra

I am running a guest macos High Sierra as virtual OS in Virtualbox. To access the guest from host (also High Sierra) I can use : Virtualbox gui macos built in screen sharing with vnc://path/to/guest/...
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How to Record a Video Call-in with Screen Share?

I need to enable someone to "call" me with video chat in a way that I can record their video, my video, and share a screen all at the same time (for vodcasting call-ins). I've tried using Zoom, but ...
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Why does BlueJeans sometime fail to show the screenshare and instead display a grey window?

Why does BlueJeans sometime fail to show the screenshare and instead display a grey window? In the screenshot below, a participant is sharing their screen but on my computer I see a dark screen ...
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How do I securely type a password on somebody else's Windows/Linux computer that I am controlling via TeamViewer/Skype

I need to type a password on somebody else's computer as I control that computer via Skype / TeamViewer. The computer can be Windows, Mac or LInux. The password will be in stars (***) as I type, so ...
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multiway desktop screen sharing app for linux

Is there a free screen sharing app for linux ? I'm not talking about controling a desktop from remote, but simply viewing someone else's screen, quite useful for a teleconference. The newest version ...
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How to change the default screen sharing / VNC port number on Mac OS X?

Is there any way to change it from the default 5900 to some other port?
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Is there a screen sharing/remote desktop app for mac that lets you use a different host screen resolution?

Ok, there are tons and tons of questions about remote desktop for mac and they're all being closed as duplicates. I however am specifically looking for one that will let me use a different resolution ...
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Does Apple still monitor or track after having a customer support screen sharing service with ara.apple.com?

Is having screen sharing service with ara.apple.com safe? I had screensharing service with ara.apple.com(https://ara-prn.apple.com/) which is official apple website for apple products support. And ...
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How can I configure TeamViewer so that the monitor that is being viewed corresponds to the most recently opened window?

I use TeamViewer to access a computer running Microsoft Windows 10. The computer has multiple monitors attached to it. The TeamViewer bar has a button going to switch which monitor is being viewed: ...
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How to screen share Safari or a Chrome tab on Apple TV 3?

I am looking for a solution where I can share a Safari or a Chrome tab on Apple TV. Points : - I am aware of the fullscreen share using the Airplay icon. It's not YouTube video I am worried about ...
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How to use a Note 4 and its pen on a PC?

I have a Galaxy Note 4 which has a pen - this is really useful for drawing. I would like very much to use this for applications on a PC (Windows 10), typically Skype for Business whiteboard and ...
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How to share only one window/application to other user in network?

I know VNC, windows remote control can share screen to others. Can I just share one window/application to my buddy and give control of this window/application to him? Same time, I still want to ...
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How do I share/screencast a browser window when offline?

The question might sound dumb, but here is the use case... I want to give a presentation In a room without a projector. The room has no wi-fi or internet connection, but my laptop can create an ad ...