[Noisebridge-discuss] Duplicating another area of the screen in osx?

[Christie Dudley]

I think I'd do a vnc of the projected image on your personal laptop so you
can view that with your notes and have full access to manipulate both
sections.


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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Brian Molnar <brian.molnar at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you use the Display menu bar item, it has a specific menu item that says
> "Turn (On|Off) Mirroring". I tested this on my laptop and it took about
> three to four seconds for the switch to happen, during which both screens
> were blank.
>
> I'm not sure what heuristic they use for window placement going from
> multi-display -> mirrored mode -> multi-display, but you might have to drag
> a window back over to the other display after coming back from mirrored
> mode. Might be worth an experiment.
>
> But at the very least the toggle is located conveniently in the menu bar.
>
> - Molnar
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble googling this, so maybe one of you knows an app
>> that does this...
>>
>> For my 26c3 talk, I want to be able to
>> a) run the presentation in dual-monitor mode, so that I can see my
>> notes on my laptop
>> b) switch spaces to a textpad, so I can easily type for everyone to
>> see, but see it on my laptop screen (as if it was in mirrored mode),
>> so I don't have to look at the projected screen
>>
>> ... and do that back and forth fairly quickly.
>>
>> The simplest way I can think of to handle this would be an app that I
>> keep on the laptop window of one space, whose sole job is to duplicate
>> the output of the 2nd monitor on that space - i.e. an app that just
>> mirrors a given chunk of screen.
>>
>> Do any of you know something that does this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sai
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