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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Basically the title, I want to use my laptop, which uses Arch Linux, and my tablet, which is an android one, as an external monitor for my desktop pc.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I believe you can buy a dummy HDMI plug and use Deskreen to host the screen in a webserver. This should work, but I don't think it's a good solution.

Edit: Deskreen seems to no longer be maintained and therefore doesn't support wayland. I think it's because of the Ukrainian war, and the creator being directly affected by it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I did that from scratch a long while ago by creating a virtual x11 screen and vnc-ing to it from the tablet.

On some GPUs it works without a dummy plug.

There are some instructions out there, but I can't search them (or my scripts) for you right now, sorry.

If you can't manage to make it work, ping me again in a couple of days.

this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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