Hi Akkana, et al. Although I am not familiar with Jitsi screenshare a brief on line description app does not look good for this application. From what I had in mind a external web cam connected to Jitsi the cam, a five sided interior darkened box, with the sixth side of the box looks through and angled 30-45 degree angled piece of piece of glass the the key part of the telepromter devise the camera now is looking straight out and sees "me" through that angle glass. laying flat below that glass is a monitor displaying the moving test content of the teleprompter also connected to my computer that test is projected on the angled glass and is readable, so I can now read the scrolling teleprompter text projected on the angles glass which is mounted on the sixth side of the box where the camera resides looking back recording me but not seeing the scrolling text that slandted glass from the camera side creates a one way mirror effect so the text is not visible to the camera look out. I found the voice control is not necessary the scroll can be controlled via mouse and other  simple options. So what I believe I now need is some type of "non proprietary 'duplexer' program and am now looking for advise of which is servicable with mininium switching or I perhaps a simle script can control the simple prompter function a scripts within my nascent abilities. Thanks On 10/19/20 8:37 AM, Akkana Peck wrote:

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Xander task suitability

Debian 10.

Objective Running two monitors individually controlled, First monitor "Jisti", second monitor, "imaginary teleprompter" (different resolutions xander should should support). "Imaginary telepromter" purports to support two monitors, but,upon further reading, on a restricted basis [ ... ]

Q, A selected recommendation for an applicable non proprietary "duplexer"? software. I use xrandr for that with Zoom. I just gave a talk this past Friday that way. It should work for Jitsi too.

For slide presentations, I make my slides 1024x768 because when I give talks in person, I can always rely on the projector supporting that resolution. To use those slides on my laptop monitor (eDP-1), then use my external monitor (DP-1) for notes and other things, I run:

xrandr --output eDP-1 --mode 1024x768 --output DP-1 --auto --right-of eDP-1

If I'm doing live demos on the Jitsi screenshare rather than showing slides, I make the resolution a little higher, 1440x900, which is supposedly a good resolution for YouTube videos:

xrandr --output eDP-1 --mode 1440x900 --output DP-1 --auto --right-of eDP-1

The names of your screens may vary. For example, if my monitor is plugged in to the USB-C hub it's DP-1, but if it's plugged in to the laptop directly it's HDMI-1; and on the last version of Ubuntu it was DP1 (no dash). Type xrandr with no arguments to see what your monitors are called.

I don't know how well this works with desktops like Gnome or KDE. I use a lightweight window manager, Openbox.

I can't help on voice-controlled teleprompter apps; sorry. I write my slides in HTML and JavaScript, and advance using the spacebar or (at live talks) a handheld slide presenter device that emulates a keyboard.

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