All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
On 04/28/2015 03:36 PM, CS DBA wrote:
All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
Your tablet needs to be running an X server, and the X server needs to allow your workstation access to the tablet's X display.
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 15:51 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
On 04/28/2015 03:36 PM, CS DBA wrote:
All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
Your tablet needs to be running an X server, and the X server needs to allow your workstation access to the tablet's X display.
There are several VNC clients and viewers on the Google Play store. Also RDP (Remote Desktop) and Teamviewer.
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On 04/28/2015 02:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 15:51 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
On 04/28/2015 03:36 PM, CS DBA wrote:
All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
Your tablet needs to be running an X server, and the X server needs to allow your workstation access to the tablet's X display.
There are several VNC clients and viewers on the Google Play store. Also RDP (Remote Desktop) and Teamviewer.
I think the OP meant using the tablet like an actual monitor (e.g. multidisplay off the OP's video card).
As far as I know that's not possible. The HDMI port on the tablet is an output only. The tablet is essentially a laptop, and that port is its auxiliary display port (use it to connect to your TV or some other HDMI monitor). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Millihelen (n): The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On 04/28/2015 04:28 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 04/28/2015 02:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 15:51 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
On 04/28/2015 03:36 PM, CS DBA wrote:
All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
Your tablet needs to be running an X server, and the X server needs to allow your workstation access to the tablet's X display.
There are several VNC clients and viewers on the Google Play store. Also RDP (Remote Desktop) and Teamviewer.
I think the OP meant using the tablet like an actual monitor (e.g. multidisplay off the OP's video card).
As far as I know that's not possible. The HDMI port on the tablet is an output only. The tablet is essentially a laptop, and that port is its auxiliary display port (use it to connect to your TV or some other HDMI monitor).
No need to use hdmi. Wifi will work. It all depends on the X[server - Client] packages' configuration and firewall rules, ... etc.
Hope the OP will use the SSL'ed version of X-[Server - Viewer] apps.
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On 04/28/2015 03:40 PM, jd1008 wrote:
On 04/28/2015 04:28 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 04/28/2015 02:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 15:51 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
On 04/28/2015 03:36 PM, CS DBA wrote:
All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
Your tablet needs to be running an X server, and the X server needs to allow your workstation access to the tablet's X display.
There are several VNC clients and viewers on the Google Play store. Also RDP (Remote Desktop) and Teamviewer.
I think the OP meant using the tablet like an actual monitor (e.g. multidisplay off the OP's video card).
As far as I know that's not possible. The HDMI port on the tablet is an output only. The tablet is essentially a laptop, and that port is its auxiliary display port (use it to connect to your TV or some other HDMI monitor).
No need to use hdmi. Wifi will work. It all depends on the X[server - Client] packages' configuration and firewall rules, ... etc.
Hope the OP will use the SSL'ed version of X-[Server - Viewer] apps.
I was addressing the OP's question and I think the OP was trying to do something like Xinerama using his tablet as a second monitor--not as a remote desktop client. I use some vncviewer-ish thing on my tablet over wifi and that's fine (damned hard to read with these old eyes and I HATE having to scroll the display around), but I don't think that's what the OP was trying to do.
For what I think the OP wants, he'd need something like a Mimo USB-based LCD device--not a tablet. I have one of these Mimo devices and it does sorta look like a tablet. It is merely a small LCD that interfaces via USB. It works--not great, but it works. I haven't futzed with it in a while (probably since F19) and it needed an xorg.conf file with it configured as the primary display (ugh!). The login prompt and desktop displayed on the Mimo and I had to drag stuff to the big monitor to read it. Not ideal.
I have the xorg.conf file here in my hot little hands if you want to see it. I never optimized it, it was more an exercise in a "can I get the beblistered thing to work?"-form of self torture with the result best summarized as, "Well, yes I can...but it hurts too much!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Charter Member of the American Society of Curmudgeons - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On 04/28/2015 03:51 PM, jd1008 wrote:
On 04/28/2015 03:36 PM, CS DBA wrote:
All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
Your tablet needs to be running an X server, and the X server needs to allow your workstation access to the tablet's X display.
On your android, you can install the Xserver from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=x.org.server&hl=en
There maybe some firewall rules you might have to set up in order to make this work. If your desktop and android are on the same lan, and the router does force lan isolation, (as most public hotspots do), and forwall does not allows traffic to/from desktop<->android, then you would have to create the firefall rules to allow the traffic, and recofnig the router to allow traffic to/from desktop<->android.
Good luck.
On 04/28/2015 03:36 PM, CS DBA wrote:
All;
Is it possible to use an andriod tablet as a second monitor? I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell Precision Workstation 3800
Thanks in advance
See a good list of X display Servers and Clients at
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=free%20xserver&c=apps
Beware though, some of these apps may turn out to contain malware (stealing your contacts and passwords such as when you want to connect the tablet to be an X-Viewer of the Desktop's Display.
I have read a few professionally written articles by security companies about the malware in the android apps.
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