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Select a single window to screenshare

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Kwindla Kramer

With large monitors, it's sometimes nice to be able to share just a single window, to better control how legible the screenshare is on the remote end.

It's also nice to not worry about local alerts or browser tabs or other "not really public" information on your screen, when sharing.

March 24, 2020

J Sherwani (Pop Team)

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We've just released v6.0 today which lets you share a rectangular area of the screen!
I'm marking this as closed since many folks said that they'd be fine with sharing a rectangular area, but I've also created a new feature to track the 'share a window' request. If you're still interested in that, please upvote the following feature request:
https://support.pop.com/feature-requests/p/select-a-single-window-to-screenshare-not-just-a-rectangular-area

Rohit Karthik

Agree, this is a needed option for those that want privacy or for those that just don't want to share all their content. For now, remote control doesn't need to be enabled on window sharing, but can be later on. There could be a warning like "Note: External control only works when you share your whole screen".

joel tan

I started using a bigger screen (with macbook screen closed on the side) and now I prefer to just share windows instead of the whole screen since I typically divide the one big screen into multiple windows. would be nice to have this feature - I assume the complexity behind this is giving the control only to the shared window, not the whole desktop.

Kristoffer Schroeder

Any update on this? This is still blocking us from using screen

Kevin Gorham

Sharing a rectangular area would also be nice. So I created a separate feature request for that here:

https://screen.canny.io/feature-requests/p/select-a-rectangular-screen-area-to-share

Glade Luco

Is there an update on when this might get worked on? lots of us are waiting in the wings to even try adopting this as working with large monitors just doesn't work.

J Sherwani (Pop Team)

Merged in a post:

Full control?

Yoel Spotts

It seems like when I take control of the shared screen, I take FULL control of the users computer. I.e. I can do anything at that point. That seems kinda dangerous. It would be nice to be able to assign control of specific apps (like an IDE).

Awesome app!

May 3, 2020

Kristoffer Schroeder

21:9 screen = can't use this app to share and discuss during coding, using google meet until it's possible to share specific window

James Ogilvie

+1 for this. I have two 4k monitors, and I do a lot of presenting of in-development websites to clients while on calls. Google Meet is ideal for this, as I can select to share _only_ a browser window that I have prepared for the purpose (without any visible bookmark bar, plugins, etc.). I have shortcuts set up to change a given browser window to 720p/1080p sizes.
A lot of the time, my clients are on smaller devices (netbooks, etc.) - sharing a full monitor window is just not practical.
I love the look of Screen, but - as good as it is - it just can't replace Meet for me right now on most occasions without the ability to select a window/area.

Oskar Boethius Lissheim

Would come in handy, but not prio compared to other usability tweaks.

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