Re: [gentoo-user] Fake Dual-Head with VNC?

[Tim Igoe <tim@igoe.me.uk>]

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Tim Garton wrote:
> Anybody know if this is possible?  I have a single-head graphics card
> capable of doing 2048x1536.  I want to start X with a virtual desktop
> of 2048x768, make my ViewPort be the left half of said desktop, start
> x11vnc using the "-clip" option so that it only shows the right half of
> said desktop, and then use an old beater laptop to act as a view-only
> VNC client that connects to the x11vnc instance.  I think it will work,
> my only question is is there a way to prevent the ViewPort from moving
> around in X as you move the mouse?
>
> Tim 
It sounds like Synergy would be a better solution to what you are trying
to do (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/). I don't use it myself, but I
was looking into it when I've sorted my laptop out, to use it as an
extension of my screen.

Tim

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