Share your screen

Share your screen

When you share your screen in Pactto, it appears as a live window on the room's canvas. Everyone in the room sees it, and it can be moved and resized like other items on the canvas. Any participant can share, from a computer.

Start sharing

1. In the bar at the top right of the room, click Share screen (tooltip Share screen – S) or press S. You can also open the Room menu next to the room title and choose Share screen.
2. Your browser asks what to share (a screen, a window, or a tab). Choose one and confirm.
3. Your screen appears in the middle of your view on the canvas and opens in focus. It shows a loading animation for a moment, then the live picture.

On a narrow window, Share screen may be inside the More button in the same bar.

Stop sharing

Do any of these:

• Click the button again (Stop sharing screen) or press S.
• Use your browser's own stop sharing control.
• Leave the room.

The shared screen is removed from the canvas for everyone.

When someone else shares

1. Pactto asks Follow followed by the presenter's name and screen share?, with a preview of their screen and your current view.
2. Click Follow (with their name) to jump to their shared screen, or Stay where I am to keep working where you are. You can stop following anytime.
3. While they share, their camera tile shows a Presenting badge. Click it to see their shared screen.

If several people start sharing, Pactto asks about them one at a time.

Zoom into a shared screen

While a shared screen is in focus:

• On a computer, hold Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) and scroll over the screen to zoom, then drag to move around.
• On a touch device, pinch with two fingers to zoom and drag with one finger to move.
• While zoomed in, a small control appears in the top right corner with Reset zoom, Zoom out, the current percentage, and Zoom in. Zoom goes up to 400%.

Zoom only changes your own view.

Sharing in conversation mode

If conversation mode is on, the shared screen takes the main area and the cameras move to a strip beside or below it. Your own share is labeled You're sharing your screen; someone else's reads their name and is presenting. With several shares at once, use Focus this screen share or View all screen shares on a shared screen to switch between them.

Good to know

• Screen sharing is not available on phones. The button is hidden there, but phone users can still watch and zoom into shared screens.
• On phones and tablets, a shared screen starts muted. Tap the shared screen to hear its audio.
• The shared screen keeps its proportions when you resize it.
• If the picture does not load after several tries, the shared screen shows an error message. Stop and start sharing again.
• If the connection drops, Pactto shows Reconnecting... and tries again. See Fix connection problems.