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Open-source options for screen sharing with participant annotation? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I'm helping students and people with disability to navigate their devices and learn how to do things on their computer.

Sometimes I do this remotely, and I'm looking for software that would allow them to share their screen to me. And me to annotate on their screen (visible to them) or at least show my cursor so I can point at things.

I know this used to be possible with slack. But I would like to find an open-source and affordable alternative.

Anybody have some experience with this?

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Its not exactly call software, so its be a second app, but I think rustdesk supports a whiteboard thats transparent - so basically annotation.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Rustdesk is a remote control application, right?
    Would it be possible for the other person to keep controlling the computer while i'm annotating, or would it require me to take control of their computer?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The other person can use it still, it doesnt take away local control

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ok, thats good. But I suppose I can't point at something with the cursor while he is using it right?
    One person I help is using eye-tracking software, so I guess he would have to turn it off every time I want to show something

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Haven't used that feature to be able to say how that interaction works, or used it with a tobii or anything unfortunately.

    The only other thing I can think of to check out would be Jitsi, but I don't think it does annotation. Iirc, they were adding in something for a laser pointer, but I don't know where thats at in development or that it would be enough for you use.

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    • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago

    Forgot to mention: I'm mainly using Linux and the people I help are typically on mostly windows, but also macos and linux
    Apparently slacks annotation feature never really worked on linux in the first place?

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