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Screen sharing from Messages works as expected, except the mouse doesn't appear. I see the mouse on my local mouse but when I mouse over to the remove screen/window, the mouse dissapears. The keyboard works– command-tab, for example works on the remote mac from my mac- but the mouse just isn't visible.
Any ideas?
More: turns out that the mouse IS moving on the remote Mac, but I can't see it on my Mac. If I move it and click I can see the resultant behavior remotely, but I don't know where the mousie is.
Hi,
I just did this using Bonjour between a Snow Leopard Computer (iChat 5) and Messages in Mountain Lion (version 7)
I started from the Snow Leopard Computer and Offered to "Share My Screen" from there.
The MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard) Screen cam up on the iMac (Mountion Lion).
I could see the cursor on both Screens as I moved around the pic/screen on my iMac the cursor moved on the MacBook Pro.
I tried bringing my own Screen to the front (no Problems) and then mousing over the reduced MacBook Pro screen. It seems it is isolated from the Cursor (As it should be) at this point and did not appear on the MacBook Pro.
How many physical Screens/Displays does the Buddy have ?
Any chance your cursor is so far off to one side that it is not on the view you can see ?
This might also depend on how the Buddy has any external Screens set up.
Most run them left and right but some have them one above the over.
It may also depend if the display is actually On. I once used a second Display/Monitor/Screen and had it turned Off but System Preferences identified it as being "there" and in an iChat Screen Sharing it distorted the view. Very wide letter boxed pic.
10:40 PM Tuesday; July 31, 2012
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
Ralph,
I initiate the remote screen by control clicking on Suzie's name in Messages, and select 'view remote screen'.
The remote is SL and while I am running ML on two scrrens, that's not the issue. I see the mouse locally but as soon as I move it over the remote it disappears.
But not really: it only disappears from view but as I described, it's still there, and clicking shows that the remote sees it, too, since I can see that the mouse is having an effect. Exactly what it's doing I can predict as I cant see it. But if I move the mouse here, then click, I see it doing things on the remote screen.
And, while I can't control it, I do see the remote mouse. The remote screen responds to my keyboard command-tab.
Everything working as expected, in other words, except that I can't see the mouse cursor on the remote screen.
Weird, I know.
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I had a similar problem. I was able to initate a Messages (AIM) screen sharing session, but mouse clicks were inactive. Neither I, nor the remote user could click on anything as long as the sharing session was active. The mouse cursor was visible and could be moved, but clicking does nothing.
Any ideas?
HI,
I do have a Buddy that I tested this with a fair while ago in iChat.
One things we came across that sort of effected the the actions of the Mouse were that we both tended to be holding the mouse still whilst giving the other the Screen Sharing control.
You tend to twitch just enough when the mouse moves that your local control is grabbed back - it's like you process the movement as possibly you drifting the mouse in a lack on concentration so you try to move the mouse back which in turn stops the Buddy having control of your mouse.
8:00 pm Saturday; March 22, 2014
Great tip. Unfortunately, either of us could move the cursor, just couldn't click. And we took turns...:)
Hi,
Some people install app like Jiggler to stop the Mac going to sleep.
Anything like this on the end that is supposed to be Sharing ?
8:31 pm Saturday; March 22, 2014
Mouse not working on screen shared Mac
