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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.

Screen Sharing is the term for allowing your display to be viewed remotely on a separate device in real time (as opposed to a screenshot image or asynchronous screen recording).

It is also the name of an application built into the Macintosh OS X Lion for viewing a remote display such as that provided by a VNC server.

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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 from that the other side just gets a blank…
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Is there a way to launch ScreenSharing from the Terminal?

How can I launch OS X's ScreenSharing from the command line and have it connect to a specified system?
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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 operate the other windows I have. If I choose to…
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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 Sharing application has focus, the Command-Tab is…
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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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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 window and watching the Zoom meeting off to the…
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How to configure OS X Lion to automatically accept requests for ScreenSharing

Prior to OS X Lion, I could easily take control of my Mac Mini via ScreenSharing from one of the other Mac's on my home network. Now, with OS X Lion, there is an option to share the same screen or view a virtual screen. Sharing the screen with the…
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Ubuntu: How to share desktop for remote pair programming

How to setup the environment for remote pair programming session on Ubuntu (10.10) securely over the internet? I think that, for our workflow, we need to share the screen, sharing terminal session or text editor alone would not be ehough. Note that…
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How can I share only a small portion of my screen/display?

Does anyone know how to share only a portion of your display when screen sharing (via something like Remote Desktop or VNC)? Say I have a program running (in Windows 7), and I want to show JUST the top half of the GUI for that program. I have not…
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How to get a mouse middle click event on a Macintosh?

I am using a MacBook Air running OS X 10.7 (Lion) with Screen Sharing application to view the display of a Linux box running Emacs. I need a mouse middle click. How can I generate a mouse-middle click event from the Macintosh without an external…
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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 hoc wifi network. My presentation is written in…
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A "view-only" mode in `screen`?

One of my favorite modes for screen is using the -x option, wherein multiple users can connect-to the same session (great for team troubleshooting and training purposes). However, it would be really nice if there were a way to merely watch the…
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How to VNC to Mac OS X Lion?

How can we VNC to Mac OS X Lion to use screen sharing? RealVNC for Windows connects and shows a lock screen, but I cannot click or type a password. What clients will work now?
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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 of Skype has a "share screen" feature that uses…
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TightVNC server not getting right-clicks from Mac Screen Sharing/VNC client?

I am using Apple's Screen Sharing client in OS X 10.6.2, to connect to TightVNC running on Win XP. But TightVNC is not receiving right-clicks. Scaling is on, and everything else is working fine. I do not think it is a problem with the server because…
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