Re: [Hampshire] Using a laptop as a second screen

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Author: James Ashburner
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Using a laptop as a second screen
Stuart Matheson wrote:
> There was something call Xdmx a while back
> (http://dmx.sourceforge.net/) but it seems as though that code has
> been merged into X.org.
>
> Try looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRandR as I believe that Xinerama is in
> there now but X.org will be moving to XRandR soon.
>
> Stu
>
> 2009/8/20 James Ashburner <hantslug@???
> <mailto:hantslug@servertude.co.uk>>
>
>     Hi All,

>
>     I'm sure I've seen some software that allowed you to use a laptop
>     as an
>     additional screen, booting as a live CD if I remember correctly.
>     Anyone
>     have a clue what I'm talking about? :)

>
>     James

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Thanks Stuart, not the one I was thinking of though. This is actually
for a Windows machine and more like Maxivista (http://www.maxivista.com/)

James