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Linux: Use VNC to create a second Screen

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Mar 15, 202611186 views
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Problem

I'm planning to use my 7" Android tablet as second screen via VNC. Sharing my main screen works fine with x11vnc, but that is not what I want. So I created a second screen using the xorg86-video-dummy driver and share this screen with which works but I don't get it managed to use xrandr "extending"…

Error Output

x11vnc -display :1

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Fix for: Linux: Use VNC to create a second Screen

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I think I have found a solution using xdmx instead of xrandr; I will try this on a virtual machine running two xservers (with dummy devices) plus xdmx as primary xserver. My first try with two "dummy xservers": Works, but now I have to tell slim to …

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