> The iMac and HP Z1 have a bi-directional DisplayPort/Thunderbolt port, which > lets them be used as a Display for another computer. Apple calls it Target > Display Mode, though HP doesn't seem to have a special name for it. This is > really quite useful, I've used an iMac hooked up to a Linux machine at a > previous job, and it's awesome to switch between the two machines when > you've only got space for one display on the desk. The feature is invoked by > a fairly non-standard keyboard combination. Here is a video illustrating > what I mean ( > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y7_OZgBX8kQ#t=60 ), > note how he switches the iMac from being the display for the MacBook to > being an iMac again via keyboard shortcut (sort of off-screen). > > However, this feature is only implemented in OS X and Windows (via HP's My > Display application) on the iMac and Z1 respectively. Which means that if, > for example, a Z1 has Linux as the primary OS, the Z1 cannot currently be > used as a monitor for a laptop or another computer (via Target Display > Mode). As far as I've been able to discover, Target Display Mode does not > exist under any flavor of Linux. > > What would it take to support this in Fedora? Is this a Desktop-centric > feature for Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon, or is this something that would/should be > part of the Linux kernel itself? I don't think it's directly part of a > graphics driver (at least on Windows, since HP released My Display as a > separate program), but again I'm not sure. You'd have to reverse engineer or ask HP/Apple what they actually do for this to work. then implement that. Dave. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
