- #HOW TO USE ANOTHER COMPUTER AS A SECOND MONITOR LINUX WINDOWS 10#
- #HOW TO USE ANOTHER COMPUTER AS A SECOND MONITOR LINUX PC#
- #HOW TO USE ANOTHER COMPUTER AS A SECOND MONITOR LINUX TV#
They’re not real computer-literate, so I can set it up so that they can surf the net and watch youtube and go on social media, and not have to worry as much about viruses and trojans and the like. I may buy a newer laptop with the money I get from my tower and sell this one or give it to a family member. So I’m hoping to do something similar here. I switched the laptop over to Linux Mint and immediately it recognized the second monitor and was like, “oh, yeah, here you go, two displays, w00t!” I tried the standard Ubuntu at first, and tho the screen would light up on the second monitor, it would just stay green and I couldn’t do anything with it.
#HOW TO USE ANOTHER COMPUTER AS A SECOND MONITOR LINUX PC#
Step 5: On the Windows PC from where you want to project, navigate to Settings > System > Display. Step 4: Now, make sure that your laptop that you would like to use the second monitor and the PC that from where you would like to project are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
#HOW TO USE ANOTHER COMPUTER AS A SECOND MONITOR LINUX WINDOWS 10#
I had two monitors hooked up at that time, using Linux Mint (this was about a decade ago). Your Windows 10 laptop is now ready for projection. I had a setup in Minnesota when I lived there, where I used the laptop (with it folded shut, wireless mouse/kb and lots of externals) sort of as a mini-docking station.
#HOW TO USE ANOTHER COMPUTER AS A SECOND MONITOR LINUX TV#
Insofar as watching the movies and tv shows I have on the one external (the other one’s almost empty), I can just pop that into the usb port on my other Roku that I use for an Xbox monitor and that should be fine. I just installed Zoom (to yak with my daughters and grandkids) and it worked, perfectly, ‘right out of the box’. Otherwise, I’m loving the heck out of Budgie. What I used was xrandr command for the first time to find the names of connected displays and then after every boot use it to set one monitor (say laptop's) as the primary one and the other left (or right) of the primary. But that might be my phone settings and I haven’t had coffee yet, so I’ll mess with those. I used the desktop's CRT as the second monitor quite easily. I plugged both of my phones into the same hub and tho they’re charging, the system didn’t seem to open them up. Doing so first makes both computer screens. Use Xdmx to turn the computer which is on the recieving end of the ssh into a monitor using the following command: startx - /usr/bin/Xdmx :1 +xinerama -display :0.0 -display localhost:10.0 -norender -noglxproxy. I plugged a different hub (I have four or five floating around here, I almost never get rid of computer stuff) and plugged my two 1Tb external drives into a different port on the lappy and Budgie recognized both right away. ssh into one computer from the other with -X option going. I’ve got lots of cables in my ‘computer graveyard’ (a 30-gallon plastic tote) so maybe I’ll pick up another adapter and see.Īs for the ports, yeah.
I don’t have any way to test that, short of getting an adapter and another cable. Now that your PC is projecting to your laptop and youve selected the Extend option on your PC, you. It’s a brand new cable so while it’s unlikely that that is the culprit, it is possible. Select your laptop when its name appears to connect to it.