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using a second computer as a mere screen/monitor in X (VNC?)

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Mar 15, 20265374 views
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My goal is to use three monitors with my Linux system. It is a laptop, so adding another video card is not the easiest solution. (I have investigated a number of such options: getting a docking station with a PCI slot, USB/Cardbus vga adapters, etc, and for the time being don't want to go that way.…

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Fix for: using a second computer as a mere screen/monitor in X (VNC?)

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That's what DMX: Distributed Multi-head X is designed to do, unfortunately it's been broken in several X.Org releases, so you may have to work a bit to get it working.

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