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> handy for sharing a PPT without fear of an embarrassing email showing up in during a meeting. When you share a single window in Zoom, notifications are still

> handy for sharing a PPT without fear of an embarrassing email showing up in during a meeting. When you share a single window in Zoom, notifications are still visible to others in the meeting when they overlap with the window you're sharing. That's the case for e.g. Slack notifications.

TameAntelope 5y ago
I literally quit all messaging apps when presenting to people for any period of time more than ~10s.
- dylan604 5y ago
  You could also disable notifications if your OS has that kind of feature. Mine does, so I took advantage of that after the first incident of being interrupted. It's a nice feature.
  - cygned 5y ago
    Let me introduce you to Microsoft Teams which comes with custom notifications ignoring do-not-disturb settings.
aetherspawn 5y ago
They are grayed out for everyone else, so they can’t actually read the contents. Caveat being if you move the window around really fast sometimes it’s possible to catch a glimpse.
- yakubin 5y ago
  Maybe that's changed, but a couple months ago we tested it on vanilla Ubuntu in the team at $dayjob and we could see everything. Nothing was grayed out.
  - 123jay7 5y ago
    $dayJob
  - kiwijamo 5y ago
    Zoom on Mac and/or windows seems to black out other windows if they appear on top of the target window. I've seen that happen a few times so definitely does happen, just perhaps not on Linux.
  - aetherspawn 5y ago
    Sounds like it works a little differently on Linux. To be honest, I'm actually surprised and impressed that they support screen share in the Linux version because of how many different flavors of i.e. WM there are in the wild.
    - eadmund 5y ago
      I don't believe that the WM would enter into it — as long as folks are using X11 the code should be, I think, the same for any WM or DE. Now, using Wayland it may or may not be possible, depending on which WM/compositor/whatever you are running.
dathinab 5y ago
On windows? Hm, I don't think that is the case for Gnome/GTK as pipe wire should grab the image before it's composed as far as I know. But I can't check as I'm running sway which (I think, haven't checked for a while) doesn't yet support single window screen sharing.

TameAntelope 5y ago

I literally quit all messaging apps when presenting to people for any period of time more than ~10s.

dylan604 5y ago
You could also disable notifications if your OS has that kind of feature. Mine does, so I took advantage of that after the first incident of being interrupted. It's a nice feature.
- cygned 5y ago
  Let me introduce you to Microsoft Teams which comes with custom notifications ignoring do-not-disturb settings.

aetherspawn 5y ago

They are grayed out for everyone else, so they can’t actually read the contents. Caveat being if you move the window around really fast sometimes it’s possible to catch a glimpse.

yakubin 5y ago
Maybe that's changed, but a couple months ago we tested it on vanilla Ubuntu in the team at $dayjob and we could see everything. Nothing was grayed out.
- 123jay7 5y ago
  $dayJob
- kiwijamo 5y ago
  Zoom on Mac and/or windows seems to black out other windows if they appear on top of the target window. I've seen that happen a few times so definitely does happen, just perhaps not on Linux.
- aetherspawn 5y ago
  Sounds like it works a little differently on Linux. To be honest, I'm actually surprised and impressed that they support screen share in the Linux version because of how many different flavors of i.e. WM there are in the wild.
  - eadmund 5y ago
    I don't believe that the WM would enter into it — as long as folks are using X11 the code should be, I think, the same for any WM or DE. Now, using Wayland it may or may not be possible, depending on which WM/compositor/whatever you are running.

dathinab 5y ago

On windows? Hm, I don't think that is the case for Gnome/GTK as pipe wire should grab the image before it's composed as far as I know. But I can't check as I'm running sway which (I think, haven't checked for a while) doesn't yet support single window screen sharing.