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According to Google, the company will be transferring current "Hangouts" users to a new standalone app called Hangout Chats, to begin in October of According to a statement released by the company: "We will continue to support consumer use of classic Hangouts and expect to transition consumers to free Chat and Meet following the transition of GSuite customers. A more specific timeline will be communicated at a later date.
The main problem with this is that what the company is calling 'Classic Hangouts' has more than a billion installations on Android devices and a history that stretches back more than a decade, which is an eternity in the messaging app world. It's a robust, full-featured communications solution that is much loved by just about everyone who uses it. Meanwhile, Hangouts Chat is brand new, unproven, and is likely to have serious issues.
It may also experience unfortunate growing pains until the kinks get worked out of the new solution, and you can bet that there will be some. Worse, at present, the new service boasts less than half a million installs. It's a fraction of the size of the old service and no one not even the best and the brightest at Google know for sure how the new app will handle the massive influx of users once the transition begins.
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Whenever I start sharing my desktop in the Hangout, only the built-in smaller screen is shared. Best thing would be to be able to chose which one to share, but if not, how could I share only the attached bigger screen? I bet Google's Hangout is looking for a configuration file to choose which screen to share, but don't know which file it is. Using Google Chrome makes Google Hangouts share both screens at the same time instead of only the laptop's screen, which I think is even worse.
Still trying to find out how could I choose which screen to share.
It turns out there's already an open issue in the Chromium tracker about this annoying inconvenience. Existing options offered by Hangouts have major drawbacks:. Share Entire Screen: If you have multiple screens I have three and share "Entire Screen", other people in the hangout won't be able to see anything. A very good workaround is at Comment 18 of this same discussion, so all the credits should go to the comment's author. Open VLC in "Screen Capture" mode and tell it which part of your X11 screen you want it to capture, using the appropriate Screen Module command-line parameters.
For me, on ubuntu Go back to Google Hangouts and share the newly opened VLC window, which now acts as your "portal" to the interesting part of your screen. Move the VLC window away from the part of the screen you are capturing to avoid inception effects. If you want to get it out of your way while streaming to hangouts, just move it off-screen WITHOUT resizing it, or just pretend it's not there. The mouse pointer is not captured by VLC in linux. The author of the workaround suggests a solution for this as well: ExtraMaus , a simple C programs which creates a "clone" of your mouse, but visible by VLC.
You'll always use this parameter as is. The flags --no-video-deco and --no-embedded-video hide the window menu and video control toolbar respectively.
You don't want to share these through Hangouts, so I suggest you always include these parameters. You can make it 30 or 10, since performance is primarily affected by how Chrome encodes the video stream. The area of the screen you want to captured follows the standard convention [ --screen-top , --screen-left , --screen-width , --screen-height ].
Supposing I had two monitors, each x, giving a total x "virtual" screen when placed one next to the other, I could give the following coordinates:. I think I have found a better workaround than using vlc.
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We just need to create a fake webcam that shows our screen. Then we need to make it appear in chromium in list of available cameras. We can make it for example by deactivating and then activating internal laptop webcam. First you should find out its usb bus and port number. In my case: Bus is 01 and Port is 4, so I run:. I have described some other ideas and some more details in hliss repo. Google Chrome can't see fake camera. Modified version of the script in hliss repo to be able to select the area of a window or draw the area with a rectangle.
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Active 8 days ago. Viewed 22k times. I have a laptop with a built-in screen and an attached monitor. Peque Peque 2, 3 3 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. As an experiment if you make your secondary screen your primary via GNOME settings dialog does hangouts get opened on the secondary monitor? No matters if it is the primary or the secondary sreen. I've been battling with my own issues with Chrome, Cinnamon, and multiple monitors too.
It's extremely annoying.