Re: Join/Leave beeps, mic muting

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

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