Desktop Transporter Help
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Lemon Software, all rights
reserved. Sharing your displays Sharing your displays with Desktop Transporter is very simple. A
screenshot of Desktop Transporter’s Sharing panel is shown below:
As can be seen, there are a number of options that can be set, as well
as a miniature copy of the displays on the Mac. (On Macs with multiple
monitors, multiple small displays will be shown inside the box to the
right.) To share a display, click it’s miniature version in the box.
You will know that the display is shared when circular "radiowaves"
appear on
the miniature display, along with the text Shared, as shown in the next
screenshot.
The
Sharing tab also
allows you to configure a number of
sharing options:
Color depth: Choose either Millions,
Thousands or Grayscale. Millions of colors means better quality,
whereas using
Thousands of colors provides you with better performance. For best
performance, use Grayscale.
Use compression: This option enables
the use of Run-Length Encoding, a fast and simple way of reducing
network traffic while not adding too much latency to the shared
desktop. Use of this option is highly
recommended.
Advertise displays using Bonjour:
With this option on, other Macs are able to automatically discover
your shared displays.
Disable preview: Disabling preview
will prevent others from seeing a miniature version of your shared
displays. Those concerned with security, should probably enable this
option. Instead of seeing your desktop, they will only see a black box,
filled with a number indicating which display it is (the number will
also be embossed on the display preview).
Allow others to interact: When this
box is checked, other users, once they are connected to your display,
will be able to interact with it (move the mouse, click, enter text,
and so on). If you only wish to allow others to observe your desktop,
uncheck this box.
Password: Enter a password here before sharing your displays. (If
you share a display, and later wish to add a password, you need to
enter the password, unshare the display and then share it again.) Note
that the password you enter here will be stored as clear text in
Desktop Transporter's preferences file, so you shouldn't choose your
most valuable password.
To
unshare a display, simply click on the miniature version of a shared
display. The radiowaves should disappear, and the image grey out with
the text "Not shared," indicating that the
display is no longer shared. When you share or unshare a local display,
you will see the counter for "Number of locally shared displays" under
the Desktop Transporter heading change to reflect the current sharing
status. Also, if you have "Include local computer in list" checked in
the Desktops tab, you will also see your computer appear or disappear
as you share and unshare your displays.