Re: IETF 108 session chair Meetecho testing

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2020-07-31, at 22:23, Fred Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On Jul 24, 2020, at 3:23 PM, Michael McBride <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Is there a way to share all powerpoint windows in order to quickly switch between ppt's? I'm having to quit sharing of one ppt and then start a new share of a new ppt. Doable but it would be nice to just share an app and then switch between ppts without having to quit and reshare.
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> If this is powerpoint, as in "from Microsoft" (I don't keep track of the others), Powerpoint allows you to have a number of open windows. You would only be projecting one in any case, but you should be able to close a window, switch to a new one, and project it.
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> You can do the same with pdf from any of the several things on my Mac that deal with it.
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> Where I get confused is sequence - if I have two powerpoint files and five pdfs, closing one won't necessarily instantly reveal the next in sequence. That's not a showstopper; it only calls for a little care.

Fred,

I think you are thinking about sharing a screen and cycling through windows on that screen.  This is hard to do on a laptop, where usually you have only one screen (unless you are using a solution like Apple’s Sidecar).  So we typically use Chrome’s “Share application window” function.

That works great for windows with tabs, where you cycle through tabs.  E.g., 
putting all decks into a Chrome window.

In contrast, presentation software usually creates a new window for each deck presentation (if you can present to a window at all — a very recent feature in Keynote), so you would have to use Chrome’s clumsy window selection interface each time you choose a presentation.

Consolidated decks (putting all slides into one deck) help with this, but require some planning (and some scrolling around if the sequence of presentations changes).

Grüße, Carsten