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Just tried this out, really cool concept and something we want at our 100% remote company. Sadly it didn't work out for us on the first test. Here's our exper
by quartz 7y ago
Just tried this out, really cool concept and something we want at our 100% remote company. Sadly it didn't work out for us on the first test.
Here's our experience in case it's helpful:
Signup:
- There's no concept of user provisioning or inviting users, so when I first signed up and started a session in slack everyone was a little confused about if they needed to individually sign up or if they should be expecting an invite to their corp email.
- I'd also like some degree of user management at a corp level if for no other reaosn consolidated billing and basic auditing.
Screensharing:
- One of our cofounders is on linux and tried to do a screenshare. He has 3 monitors hooked up and even though screen asked him which monitor to share, it still shared all 3 at once.
- On my side from a macbook as a viewer the app wedged all 3 of his monitors into view on my tiny 13" monitor and this completely destroyed the aspect ratio of each of his monitors (ha, it's really hard to write this without using the word screen), also the resolution was super low, likely because one of his monitors was showing a twitch video and the screen app was trying to keep up.
- I tried zooming in on the one monitor where he had code open and it was super pixelated.
- I tried drawing and there was a very noticeable delay for both of us even though we're both on high speed connections.
- I tried to take screenshots of all this but every screenshot I took just resulted in a grey image (not sure if screen intentionally blocks screenshots but they're pretty important for us).
...sadly there was no way for us to do anything like remote debugging under these conditions. Will keep an eye out for updates since this is something we really want!
Systems: Mac OS 10.15.2, Arch (Manjaro)
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- jsherwani 7y agoSorry about that! Looks like a bug in our Linux multi-monitor code. I'm going to look into this right now! It’s been a while since we touched that code, and it’s likely that bugs may have crept in since then. Also, corp level user management is something we’ve got in the works, but we wanted to get the product out so that people could start using it, and then add admin tools on top of that. For instance, if you’re on G Suite, everyone should be able to OAuth in. But I hear you on the need for better tooling around users. Were you able to try screen sharing from your Mac to his Linux computer?
- quartz 7y agoYep I believe mac -> linux was fine but we didn't do much deep testing in that direction.
- TsiCClawOfLight 7y agoI can confirm that linux allows selecting a monitor, and it will be correctly highlighted, but all monitors will be shared. Thanks for looking into this, the performance was amazing and I really want to use this!
- jsherwani 7y agoWe’re looking into this: https://screen.canny.io/bugs/p/linux-single-screen-selection-shares-all-3-monitors-squished-into-one-unreadable https://screen.canny.io/bugs/p/linux-single-screen-selection...