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I have a new macbook air 11, which I do some web based programming on, I have a windows box with a 1920x1200 display which I'd like to use to view the mac desktop and keep working at home when I can - taking advantage of the higher resolution screen and full sized keyboard/mouse.
I don't think VNC or such is the answer I'm looking for as it would restrict the display to the airs 1366x768 - negating the main benefit more lines of text on screen.
From some rudimentary googleing I think I'm after some sort of x-windows / x-11 remote display. But I'm not a Linux user and any discussion seems to be about linux > os x or windows > Linux setups. Can anyone provide a clear set of instructions on how to do this or an application that can do this.
Elijha
Posted 2011-02-19T05:02:05.140
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It's going to ultimately depend on the maximum resolution supported by your video card. You can't go any higher than what the machine can natively handle. Until we know what that is, no one can answer this question. – Cody Gray – 2011-02-19T05:10:47.360
I'm talking basically about the Air supporting what I assume for it would be a secondary display of 1920x1200 - on the windows box, this shouldn't be a difficult task for any modern machine laptop or not [ignoring 3D acceleration, and talking about 2D desktop]. The card is listed as NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory. I know using display port in the office it has no issue with the resolution on a physical 27" Mac display via display port which has a higher resolution then I am asking for. – None – 2011-02-19T05:21:21.543
You can run an X Server on the Windows box, but then the only programs you can run remotely on the Mac would be X clients. That may be fine if you're developing, but it could be a serious restriction. – Gabe – 2011-02-19T05:24:04.877
Gabe you have the direction backwards. The Mac would be serving the display out to the windows machine. – None – 2011-02-19T05:39:16.757
Elijha - the program that would have to run on the Windows box would be correctly called an X Server. Also, what kind of 1920x1200 display only has one input? – user7541 – 2011-02-19T05:45:29.527
user57368 - I guess comming from a 'Web' sort of space of mind I think in terms of Client - Server, and clearly I don't know how to succinctly ask for what I'm after here.
It's not so much the display having only one input as it has many, the Mac only has a micro Displayport out, and the monitor does not have that port (it's a Dell 2005 24" if it matters) nor do I have an adapter handy. In any case I'd also preffer to us the windows machines keyboard/mouse also. And it's not really a question of cabling but remote desktop display. I could very well be asking about an old imac in another room. – None – 2011-02-19T05:52:09.923