From one of your computers you can look at the screen of another, in a window. That computer has to say yes first.

How it goes

  1. On the map of your computers, press "Ask to look".
  2. At the other computer, someone presses "Yes, show it".
  3. The picture appears. You can enlarge it into a viewer window.

Control is a separate yes

Looking gives no control. To use that computer's mouse and keyboard from inside the viewer, you press "Request control", and someone there presses "Allow control". The app says it plainly: "Viewing and control are separate permissions."

What counts as a yes

A yes is a real press of a mouse on the question that computer shows. A press made by a program does not count, and nothing that came over the internet does.

  • With one mouse. If the two computers are paired with full trust, which is on by default for a computer you paired by the code on both screens, the mouse you share can give the yes to viewing while it is at work on that computer. A switch on each pairing turns full trust off, and then only that computer's own mouse counts.
  • A remembered yes. With a tick on the question, that computer remembers the yes for the computer that asked, separately for viewing and for control, and does not ask it again. Saving one takes that computer's own mouse. Settings lists them under "Remembered screen permissions", and takes them back.

The computer being looked at always shows it

For as long as it lasts, a sign at the top of that computer's screen says who can see it. A press on "Stop" there ends it. So do the emergency keys.

On the local network only

Pictures of a screen travel between the two computers, encrypted, on the local network. They never go through the relay, and nothing is saved on either computer.

What it is not

This is a way to see your own other computer from the chair you are in, on the same local network. It is not a way in for anyone else: nothing shows until a real press on that computer says yes, or until you have had that computer remember a yes for one of your own. With a remembered yes, the picture can show when nobody is at that computer, and the sign at the top still says who can see it.

Limits

  • It works on private and domain networks only.
  • An organization can turn it off altogether.

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