Ensemble purpose of use confusion

[Geczy]

correct me if im wrong, but i've been trying to use ensemble for a full purpose workstation, and it seems its only good for viewing your windows, not actually interacting with them

like if i mirror slack and move it to the side, i can't look at the textarea and tap to type with my keyboard. i can't move my mouse inside the window, i don't see my mouse either. if another window is covering slack on my desktop, it will interfere with any mouse clicks too

are these just bugs, or intended behavior is just to view?

[BenArtes]

Those kinds of interactions don't even currently happen on the Mac virtual display built into the AVP.

It's probably going to take a while to build up those kinds of complex interactions (if they're at all possible).

[saagarjha]

If you have a trackpad and keyboard you should be able to interact with the windows largely as if you were using Mac Virtual Display (barring bugs, of course). Trying to control things outside of the app's own native UI with your eyes is unlikely to be very pleasant because there won't be any focus highlights. This could be something I might look into, but that's filed under #17.