I’ve got one of those crazy-wide screens that I usually use at 5120x1440 and it’s great. However, since I work remote, I often want to share my screen with someone on a typical 16:9 screen and the options of “tab”, “window” or “entire screen” aren’t particularly useful because I need to switch between windows a lot as part of the sharing session: terminal, IDE, browser, back to the terminal, etc.
I’d like to be able share either (a) a portion of the screen (half?) or (b) change my resolution temporarily to something like 2650x1440 and just share the whole screen.
The problem is that as far as I can tell, (a) isn’t an option, and while I can (b) change my resolution to something 16:9, it renders wide across the screen turning effectively every pixel is a wide rectangle. It’s… hard to look at.
I’m using Arch with GNOME+Wayland. Is there some way for me to do either of the above?
EDIT: I found a nifty little Python script that does exactly what I was hoping for in (b) above. Apparently this is a built-in feature for Wayland, but most browsers don’t implement it (yet?)
Ah, in that case I’d try OBS. You can capture and “share” half your screen with OBS if your meeting software works with the OBS camera output. You add your camera as a source in OBS if you also want to be on the screen while sharing.