Re: Join/Leave beeps, mic muting

[Jaime Jiménez <[e-mail]>]

Hi, 

I also have a laptop and a large monitor. I too struggle a bit if I want
to keep everything open. My set up involves:

- Webex with slides
- Separate Webex chat
- Jabber chat
- Telegram
- Etherpad
- Own Notes
- email (just in case)
- Small space for RFCXXXX in case there is some discussion I am not
  familiar with.
- Github tracker for some documents.

I use tmux for a large portion of these but I prefer to run the webex
slides on the laptop. 

My main issue has been that the fullscreen view of
the pdf did not always work on webex. As MCR said I could not see some
of the controls *sometimes*. Other times they showed just fine.

I also admit that maybe there are
just too many things open, some of them redundant (like the chat
windows).

Ciao!
-- Jaime
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 07:32:47AM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2020-04-28, at 18:33, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > 
> > I think that the reason that chairs are not muting people is because they are
> > trying to run meetings from laptops or small screens.  In order to display
> > the slides, they likely can no longer see the webex controls.
> 
> How do they do this?
> 
> -- Webex window, large enough to see the shared screen plus all the wasted real-estate around that, and to hit the unmute button in under a minute
> -- Etherpad/hackmd window
> -- jabber room, maybe a Telegram too
> -- a peek into the mail reader because participants always send last-minute mail
> -- My own slides/my copy of the current slides for leafing around
> -- My own notes
> -- The odd RFC open for looking things up
> 
> My 6MP laptop screen *plus* a separate 4K (8MP) desk top screen are already completely busy during a meeting.  I'll have to replace (or augment?) the desk top screen with a 50" UHD TV or so to cram more windows into my workspace...
> 
> Maybe someone could write some user scripts/chrome extensions for webex to
> 
> -- mute/unmute from a location on the screen that is not shifting away just when you try to click it
> -- maybe add keyboard shortcuts as well
> -- (more ambitious) rearrange items on the browser window in a sane way
> 
> I'm spending too much mental energy rearranging, clicking active, etc., all these windows.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
>