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I used a tv as a monitor for a while and it was great -- but there is one problem with single monitor setups -- screen sharing/recording. If the app you're using lets you select a portion of the screen to share, that's great. But something like Slack you either share an app window, or the entire screen. This is very annoying in a single monitor setup. It would be amazing if you could select a part of your screen and tell the OS "treat this area like a separate monitor".



There's a number of tools on MacOS and Windows that let you do this.

Examples:

Windows: https://github.com/tom-englert/RegionToShare

Mac: https://github.com/Stengo/DeskPad


Oh nice, I was just looking through for WIN32 apis to make something like RegionToShare. This saves me some time!




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