On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Adam GROSZER <agroszer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/18/2012 08:44 PM, Alex Deucher wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Adam Groszer <agroszer...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to use an android tablet as a secondary monitor for my laptop. >>> Secondary monitor as one physical would be plugged into the VGA port. >>> Googling resulted in no concrete solution. >> >> >> Does the tablet have a VGA input port and can it act as a monitor or >> are you asking about using it as a virtual second monitor? If the >> latter, you can probably play with xdmx assuming you can get an >> xserver running on the tablet, however, there's no real official >> solution that I know of. Anything will basically be a hack. >> >> Alex > > > No VGA, I definitely need it as virtual, any communication can go only over > TCP/IP. > > There's an xserver for android, but it's rather incomplete. > Starting xfwm4 with it burps a lot of errors. > As it looks the most solid way to mirror a screen to a tablet is vnc. > > The question is, how to create the secondary headless virtual monitor with > X. I'm lost there. > (Maybe I'll force with xrandr to display that secondary on the VGA against > no real monitor connected. > Something along: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-October/004531.html > or > http://askubuntu.com/questions/150879/can-i-force-vga-signal-output-even-when-xrandr-shows-disconnected > Because what I actually want is like having a second monitor, but it's > "attached" via vnc-TCP/IP) >
As I said, originally, you need something like xdmx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdmx It's basically a proxy xserver that connects to xservers on multiple boxes and presents the result as a single xserver. Alex >> >>> >>> With some help of a friend, the http://pastie.org/5548492 script kind >>> of works. (on xubuntu 11.10) >>> Problems: >>> - the XFCE top panel gets extended to the "tablet monitor" >>> - the mouse pointer cannot enter the "tablet monitor" >>> - both above together cause the panel to be inaccessible >>> >>> Any pointers are welcome, how to solve this. >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Adam > > > -- > Best regards, > Adam GROSZER > -- > Quote of the day: > It's hard to remain true to a changing self. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
