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Can I use my laptop as a second monitor for my desk computer?
My PC's monitor just died and I'm not looking at buying a new monitor anytime soon. So I'm thinking of using my laptop's monitor for it. Both machines are running on Fedora linux.
Edit: Both machines are connected to the same wireless network. PC needs to log in before it can connect to the network if I'm not mistaken.
Update: This is different from Can I use my laptop as a second monitor for my desk computer? , because that question is asking how to use the laptop screen as the secondary display, not as the only display.
I don't think it is possible, but if you can connect the two computers by network, you can set up VPN or remote desktop on your desktop, and use it from the laptop. Unless you need the video card capabilities of your desktop, of course. – petersohn – 2010-05-21T18:44:31.343
A VPN won't help here, as it only establishes a private network between the two machines. Perhaps you meant VNC? VNC server would need to be installed on the desktop, and a VNC client on the laptop. – 8BitsOfGeek – 2010-05-21T19:16:37.267
3I don't think this is an exact duplicate. The solutions to the other question primarily revolve around Windows, but Randell is running Linux on both computers. – rob – 2010-05-24T20:45:38.267
@rob: no, the other question is completely OS agnostic. the existing answers may be primarily Windows-centric, but Linux-centric answers are appropriate there as well. – quack quixote – 2010-05-27T06:03:46.167
@quack quixote: That question is asking how to use the laptop as a second monitor, not as the only monitor. Also, I think it's only OS-agnostic because the asker forgot to specify the OS. Given that a Windows-centric answer was chosen for the other question, wouldn't it make sense to figure out if the asker was using Windows and retag it? – rob – 2010-05-27T19:48:28.770
@rob: as the other question was posted by a fairly experienced Trilogy user, i see no reason to question whether his post is platform-specific. what answer was accepted on the other question has no bearing (in this case) on whether this is a duplicate. any answers appropriate to this question can be posted on the other question. if you feel the need to argue this further, please open a discussion on Meta.
– quack quixote – 2010-05-27T22:48:53.8533Those who closed this question didn't even read the cases. – Randell – 2010-05-27T23:25:03.610
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reopen request here: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51519/posting-questions-more-specific-than-existing-broad-questions-and-answering-clo
– rob – 2010-05-28T03:05:25.707@Randell: see the reopen request above; there are several suggestions on how to reframe the question. @3000+ rep users: please vote to reopen this question :) – rob – 2010-05-28T17:51:13.583
@rob: do not edit the question like that. i've added more detail on the Meta thread. – quack quixote – 2010-05-30T08:55:23.173