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Curtain mode
Blank the host’s monitors while you work remotely, so the room sees a dark screen and you see everything.
Curtain mode blanks the host’s physical monitors for the length of a session. Anyone walking past the machine sees darkness; you see the desktop normally in your client.
Enable it
- On the host, allow it first: admin UI → Settings → Privacy → allow curtain. It’s a host policy — the machine’s owner decides whether remote users may black out the room.
- In the client, toggle the curtain from the in-session controls. It drops automatically when the session ends.
What it is — and isn’t
- The curtain hides the screen from the room, not from other clients. Watchers on the session keep seeing everything.
- Local mouse and keyboard still reach the desktop underneath. The curtain is a visual cover, not a lock — someone at the keyboard can still type into the machine. Lock the machine as usual if that matters in your setting.
- The macOS host doesn’t implement the curtain yet and says so if asked.