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Oddly enough, there are screen-sharing and/or remote-display protocols which ... are limited to sharing screen-drawing properties and aren't wholesale data vacuums. X11 and remote desktop come particularly to mind.

Several of those can be limited to specific applications, e.g., by setting the $DISPLAY value (X11). For remote desktop that's a bit more challenging but can be managed to an extent using Group Policy settings under MS Windows:

<https://serverfault.com/a/354165>




It is not screen sharing… It is more like plugging a monitor on a laptop. It’s exactly how the phone does it under the hood: it’s a secondary display.


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