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From: "Tim Garton" <garton.tim@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fake Dual-Head with VNC?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:17:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fcf3b560610311017p6031ca64k538630f98cfdc49b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45472FEE.3040908@electronsweatshop.com>

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Yeah, Synergy sounds like x2x or x2vnc, both of which I had already looked
at.  I will check it out though, thanks for the heads up.

Tim

On 10/31/06, Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com> wrote:
>
> Tim Igoe wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This was actually the first thought that came into my head too, but
> Synergy just lets you use one mouse and keyboard on two computers.
> Meaning that what he will see on the laptop screen will be running on
> the laptop and not on the desktop (which is what the VNC solution would
> effectively do).  Though I will give a shout out to Synergy - it's a
> really awesome utility and I use it a lot!
>
> --
> Randy Barlow
> http://www.electronsweatshop.com
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30 23:11 [gentoo-user] Fake Dual-Head with VNC? Tim Garton
2006-10-31  8:01 ` Tim Igoe
2006-10-31 11:13   ` Randy Barlow
2006-10-31 18:17     ` Tim Garton [this message]

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