networking - Share screen among many tablets

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2014-07
  • T.C.

    I know a musician in the area who is looking to purchase a bunch of Android tablets. His purpose is to have 3 or 5 of these running on the same network. He would pull up the sheet music for his band on his own device, and everybody else would need only to look at their screen to know what song, no shuffling of papers required.

    Is it feasible to get that functionality with little more than an app and a wireless router?

    For example, is it possible to multiplex a VNC server?

    Thanks.

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  • moshen

    When I'm away from my office mac I typically login via screen-sharing or VNC from home/another mac. Lately, after using screen sharing this way, my office mac will have several problems:

    • Command+tab and Command+` no longer work
    • Expose and other F-key functions no longer work
    • ctrl+space to launch Google QSB no longer works

    Things I have tried to remedy this:

    • Restarting the Finder process
    • Restarting the Dock process
    • Disabling the screensaver
      • Unfortunately, the screensaver still runs... A connected issue?
    • Deleting preference files for Dock/Finder/screensaver etc.

    The only thing that seems to work is a restart. I usually try and avoid that.

    System details:

    • Macbook pro 13"
    • OS v10.5.8

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  • Kevin Panko

    I've been trying to figure this out for some time. I think I found something that works. It worked for me just now without having to reboot.

    First, go into your ScreenSharing application preferences and write down your settings (there are only a handful). Then quit ScreenSharing.

    Next, go into your user directory in the Finder, then navigate to Library -> Preferences. It's important that you do this through your user folder and not through the Library folder that's on the root of your hard drive.

    Once in your Preferences folder, delete com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist and com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist.lockfile (or you can add an arbitrary extension like .old to them if you want to play it safe and be able to re-use the old preferences files.

    Finally, restart ScreenSharing. Re-enter any adjusted preferences for that application if you had any that you wrote down. Your F-keys, Cmd+Tab, Cmd+Space, and other keyboard shortcuts should once again be working.

    Hopefully this will fix it for good. I suspect my preferences file was corrupted, and deleting it caused ScreenSharing to create a fresh one. Either way, it's an easier fix than having to reboot, so give it a shot.

  • moshen

    This seems to have been resolved after upgrading to 10.6.* (not a reinstall, just upgrade)

    No indication of what caused it originally.