Feature Request: pause sharing/freeze frame

[RfArDaInOk]

Hello Tom,

I discovered RTS more or less by accident when I was looking for someting different. But maybe this is interesting for others as well. Therefore I post this as a feature request:

I often give training courses and share my screen in MS Teams. From time to time I need to trigger something in the background or do something else and I do not want to show this to the audience. Unfortunately I cannot share specific windows only by design of the software I'm demonstrating - all or nothing.

Before my company switched to MS Teams we used Zoom which has a nice feature to pause the screensharing. This means the audience can still see that something is shared but the content is frozen and they will not take note of any side activities. Like with beamers, where it was possible to freeze the last picture.

So my request is the following:
I'd like to request a functionality to freeze the picture which was shown last in RTS frame before clicking some kinde of "pause" button and RTS to keep distributing that frame to the screensharing program until "pause" is released again.

I hope that anybody else is interested in something like that and might support my request.

Thanks in advance.
Rgds, Frank

[tom-englert]

You can just click on the close button to pause, and then the play button to resume.

However people will only see the pause background, not a frozen image of the shared content, but I think that's acceptable and not worth the effort to change it.

[RfArDaInOk]

Hi Tom,

thanks for the feedback.

[RfArDaInOk]

But to be honest: showing a black screen is almost like stopping the screen sharing and can be achieved with MS Teams as well.

Maybe it is a personal feeling only, but it disturbs the "flow" of such presentations/educational sessions when the sharing is stopped/started or turns black again and again. And it may create the feeling of hiding secrets or doing fakes while demonstrating the software our customers should buy or use. I want to avoid all these negative feelings and therefore tend to not obviously create this feeling by stopping/starting/blacking the screen while presenting.

[tom-englert]

If you think this is worth the effort, you can provide a PR for this feature.

[RfArDaInOk]

Hi Tom,

what is a "PR"?

[tom-englert]

Pull request