Re: Sending a desktop to a big screen

2015-08-18 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:40 PM, birger wrote: > I have not tried this, but you can run the vnc viewer in "listening" mode > on the big screen tv, then run vncconnect on a workstation to connect an > existing vnc server there to the viewer. Could be worth a try. > Is this the same idea or mechani

Re: Sending a desktop to a big screen

2015-08-18 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:27 PM, doug wrote: > One of the advantages of Pulse Audio (now that it seems to work!) is the > ability to send two video + audio > paths to different monitors,... > Wow... I didn't know PulseAudio was able to do that. Must check the docs... Thanks a lot, Carlos. -- u

SV: Sending a desktop to a big screen

2015-08-18 Thread birger
I have not tried this, but you can run the vnc viewer in "listening" mode on the big screen tv, then run vncconnect on a workstation to connect an existing vnc server there to the viewer. Could be worth a try. Sendt fra min Sony Xperia™-smarttelefon Amit Prahesh skrev >-- >users ma

Re: Sending a desktop to a big screen

2015-08-17 Thread doug
On 08/17/2015 06:31 PM, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: Hey, On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Amit Prahesh > wrote: You are right about that. The closest existing thing, as far as I know, is an Android device miracasting to a TV. Note, however, tha

Re: Sending a desktop to a big screen

2015-08-17 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
Hey, On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Amit Prahesh wrote: > You are right about that. The closest existing thing, as far as I know, is > an Android device miracasting to a TV. Note, however, that the remote > display is dumb, in the sense that for as long the remoting session is up, > it will d

Re: Sending a desktop to a big screen

2015-07-26 Thread Amit Prahesh
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > It seems you want to screencast, something like chromecast I guess, but > interactive sessions. I do not know of any such program. I can think > of two hacks though. > You are right about that. The closest existing thing, as far as I know, i

Re: Sending a desktop to a big screen

2015-07-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:04:36PM -0400, Amit Prahesh wrote: > > Now, Sally, one of the engineers wants to share her desktop with the others > and uses application XYZ to project/cast/extend/send it to the big TV (via > its PC, of course). All of them discuss whatever was on her mind, and five >

Sending a desktop to a big screen

2015-07-25 Thread Amit Prahesh
Hi there, imagine a medium sized office room, where four engineers hack away (all of them currently have Fedora 22 workstations, to stay on topic.) On that room there's a fifth PC, hooked to a big TV on the wall (also running F22) that has Firefox running full screen with some visualization of sor