Brent Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:56:02 -0700: > Hello everyone. Like many on this list I'm sure, I end up being the > recipient of old computers that friends and family unload on me every > time the latest and greatest new thing comes out. A friend of mine just > gave me (another) old laptop that he's not using anymore and I'm trying > to figure out a use for this old beast so it doesn't end up another > thing rotting away in a landfill. > > What I was wondering is if it is possible to slap a copy of debian > stable on this thing, hook it up to my lan, and some how use this to > emulate a second monitor for my workstation. > > I don't know if X has the ability to do this, but I think I remember > reading that somebody has done this, but my googling has come up nill. > > Ideally, I imagine having the laptop sitting on my desk, and when I log > on to my workstation, it would connect to the laptop, start X there and > connect back to the workstation. Then the laptop would display another > workspace of my desktop. > > Does anybody know if this is possible, and if so, how does one go about > setting this up? Any links, experience, or anything would be great as > I'm at a bit of a loss as where to start.
DMX - distributed multihead X - emulates Xinerama over a network. Still not in Debian, despite a several year old request to package bug. I haven't tried it yet for this reason, remembering the pain of installing X myself one day, and realising that DMX is basically a forked X from the sounds of it (???) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. -- Richard P. Feynman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
