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Klampfradler 🎸🚴

How cool is that feature that sliently snuck into @kde Plasma?

Sharing your screen in :plasma: Plasma on Wayland now allows you to spin up a virtual screen, which works jsut like an external display, but only within your screen share session.

I am curious whether Windows or macOS can do that?
17 Mar 2023 at 23:35 | Open on floss.social
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smol, desu ne?

@Natureshadow @kde That's amazing, never knew about this. The Plasma Wayland improvements are truly mind blowing...

(ps: hold control + super and scroll in. that's another off-menu one I learned recently)

17 Mar 2023 at 23:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Maxi 9x πŸ’‰

@smoldesu Interesting! That’s the Kwin Zoom module? On X.org, I have to set this up via xbindkeys.

18 Mar 2023 at 0:01 | Open on chaos.social
smol, desu ne?

@frumble Not quite sure what it is, afaik it's an undocumented hush-hush feature that got added in sometime post 5.27.

Maybe we'll get a little UI to go with it in KDE 6? I can dream, can't I?

18 Mar 2023 at 0:16 | Open on mastodon.social
Maxi 9x πŸ’‰

@smoldesu Ah, that means it’s something different. What does this key combo do? I thought "scroll in" would mean to zoom in.

18 Mar 2023 at 0:18 | Open on chaos.social
smol, desu ne?

@frumble Ohhh, yes it's a zoom of some kind. It's got cursor tracking and fairly nice-looking antialiasing too, so it seems to be fairly complex under the hood.

18 Mar 2023 at 0:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@smoldesu @frumble It is a virtual monitor, with all features of a physical external monitor.

18 Mar 2023 at 0:21 | Open on floss.social
Maxi 9x πŸ’‰

@Natureshadow @smoldesu So you can dim the virtual monitor or change contrast?

18 Mar 2023 at 0:30 | Open on chaos.social
Maxi 9x πŸ’‰

@smoldesu Is it the normal Kwin Zoom effect since Plasma 4? Sounds exactly like that.

18 Mar 2023 at 1:41 | Open on chaos.social
smol, desu ne?

@frumble could be, I think it's new for the Wayland session though

could be wrong tho

18 Mar 2023 at 1:41 | Open on mastodon.social
pvPatil

@smoldesu @frumble
This is really cool. Spice protocol (used by QEMU/Libvirt) had this feature.
If it's Wayland feature, I hope it gets available for Swaywm too!

18 Mar 2023 at 3:17 | Open on hachyderm.io
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@smoldesu @frumble It has a UI, as you can see in the screenshot.

18 Mar 2023 at 0:20 | Open on floss.social
smol, desu ne?

@Natureshadow @frumble Specifically talking about the zoom feature here :p

18 Mar 2023 at 0:21 | Open on mastodon.social
ariasuni

@smoldesu @frumble It’s the Zoom desktop effects (System Settings β†’ Workspace Behavior β†’ Desktop Effects β†’ Zoom). You’ll notice in the configuration dialog that you can also, by default, zoom in with Meta+= and zoom out with Meta+-

18 Mar 2023 at 3:44 | Open on octodon.social
Maxi 9x πŸ’‰

@ariasuni @smoldesu So it’s just the normal Zoom effect since Plasma 4, now with native scroll wheel integration like Compiz had as early as 2007.

18 Mar 2023 at 3:51 | Open on chaos.social
ariasuni

@frumble @smoldesu I think it was present all along, but Nate Graham (behind This week in KDE) talked about the fact he discovered the shorcut recently by accident and that it will be made more discoverable

18 Mar 2023 at 4:04 | Open on octodon.social
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@ariasuni @frumble @smoldesu What shortcut? That is simply the default screen share dialog when you use screen sharing anywhere (like here in BigBlueButton).

18 Mar 2023 at 7:56 | Open on floss.social
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@ariasuni @smoldesu @frumble What the heck? This is totally unrelated. It is simply the default screen share dialog that is displayed when you start sharing your screen anywhere.

18 Mar 2023 at 7:58 | Open on floss.social
MsDropbear πŸŒˆβ™€:arch: :plasma:
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@dropbear42 @kde Share your screen anywhere you like.

18 Mar 2023 at 0:20 | Open on floss.social
MsDropbear πŸŒˆβ™€:arch: :plasma:

@Natureshadow @kde πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

Ta anyway. I'll research it sometime. Atm, i dunno what you mean. Can't see any obvious setting for it in System Settings.

18 Mar 2023 at 0:56 | Open on fosstodon.org
cebolleta

@Natureshadow this is super cool! i think i understand it, but it should really really be explained better and i dont think it should be the default.

18 Mar 2023 at 1:30 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Supervisor:~$ :idle:

@Natureshadow @kde mac os can without internet, im not sure about windows

18 Mar 2023 at 1:46 | Open on fosstodon.org
DDR

@Natureshadow @kde Oh cool! How do I trigger that here? Is it available on KDE 5.27.2?

18 Mar 2023 at 2:07 | Open on pony.social
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

@ddr @kde Yes. And simply share your screen somewhere (like here in BigBlueButton).

18 Mar 2023 at 7:59 | Open on floss.social
Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:

@Natureshadow @kde alright, that is dope. I want GNOME to ape this so bad! πŸ˜„

18 Mar 2023 at 2:15 | Open on mastodon.blaede.family
Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

@Natureshadow @kde This is not a thing you can do on Windows or macOS.

The workaround in macOS is to connect a second physical display and macOS will spin up a complete set of virtual workspaces for that monitor.

Windows has no workaround.

18 Mar 2023 at 2:30 | Open on fosstodon.org
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@Natureshadow @kde That’s cool, how do you control the virtual screen?

18 Mar 2023 at 2:48 | Open on tech.lgbt
Klampfradler 🎸🚴

Alright @kde, look at all the replies... The feature was not only largely unnoticed, but it seems an astonishing amount of people don't even understand that you can share your screen in a meeting in a browser, or that Plasma has anything to do with that.

Shall I make an explanatory blog post for somewhere? How does such a contribution work in KDE?

18 Mar 2023 at 8:02 | Open on floss.social
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