On 04/28/2015 03:40 PM, jd1008 wrote:
On 04/28/2015 04:28 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 04/28/2015 02:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 15:51 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
On 04/28/2015 03:36 PM, CS DBA wrote:
All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm
running
Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
Your tablet needs to be running an X server,
and the X server needs to allow your workstation
access to the tablet's X display.
There are several VNC clients and viewers on the Google Play store. Also
RDP (Remote Desktop) and Teamviewer.
I think the OP meant using the tablet like an actual monitor (e.g.
multidisplay off the OP's video card).
As far as I know that's not possible. The HDMI port on the tablet is
an output only. The tablet is essentially a laptop, and that port is
its auxiliary display port (use it to connect to your TV or some other
HDMI monitor).
No need to use hdmi.
Wifi will work.
It all depends on the X[server - Client] packages' configuration
and firewall rules, ... etc.
Hope the OP will use the SSL'ed version of X-[Server - Viewer] apps.
I was addressing the OP's question and I think the OP was trying to do
something like Xinerama using his tablet as a second monitor--not as a
remote desktop client. I use some vncviewer-ish thing on my tablet over
wifi and that's fine (damned hard to read with these old eyes and I
HATE having to scroll the display around), but I don't think that's
what the OP was trying to do.
For what I think the OP wants, he'd need something like a Mimo
USB-based LCD device--not a tablet. I have one of these Mimo devices
and it does sorta look like a tablet. It is merely a small LCD that
interfaces via USB. It works--not great, but it works. I haven't futzed
with it in a while (probably since F19) and it needed an xorg.conf file
with it configured as the primary display (ugh!). The login prompt and
desktop displayed on the Mimo and I had to drag stuff to the big
monitor to read it. Not ideal.
I have the xorg.conf file here in my hot little hands if you want to
see it. I never optimized it, it was more an exercise in a "can I get
the beblistered thing to work?"-form of self torture with the result
best summarized as, "Well, yes I can...but it hurts too much!"
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