Screen share question on Leopard

[tuqqer]

Screen share with Leopard is one of its best and most useful features for me so far. I'm doing it a couple times a day.

I have dual 20" screens. In Screen share, both show up on the other person's mac. If they have a laptop, that makes for very tiny viewing, because both have to fit on theiir screen.

If I turn on the mirror feature in the Monitors Sys Pref, then only one of the screens shows up. But on my end all open windows cram into one monitor.

What would be much better is if there could be a way to not turn on mirroring, and just be able to show the one monitor that has the menu.

This probably isn't doable right now. I'm just mentioning it in case someone comes up with a hack or method.

[Kiva]

i love the screen share too....don't have your situation though. Perhaps it will come with further refinements..

kiva

[bhaveshp]

I feel your pain - I screen share from my MBP into my Dual 24" iMac and I get two very tiny windows on the MBP.

Turning on mirroring helps, but what I usually do is hide applications that I don't need to focus on to reduce the # of windows.

Screen sharing (along with improved networking speeds) is probably my favorite Leopard feature. The screen sharing app is way faster than Chicken of the VNC and it auto compresses & scales as well.

[erguitar]

Are you referring to the screen sharing built into iChat or the Finder? If you use the one from the Finder you can actually choose to just view 1 of your displays in the menu. Also - you can see it's full resolution if you want to. This just creates a scrollable area in your client-side sharing computer. I have used it numerous times from my Macbook to my 20" iMac w/a 21" External display.

I love this feature as well! I'm trying to find a way to use it remotely though - not as a part of the LAN