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Software to use laptop/tablet screen as an external monitor (feddit.it)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically the title, I want to use my laptop, which uses Arch Linux, and my tablet, which is an android one, as an external monitor for my desktop pc.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Quite sad actually, that you can't just use laptop displays as external displays.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well you can, but there only are quite hacky approaches like

diplaying a webpage with a stream of the screen
using a capture card on the laptop and displaying the input
using a laptop that supports it
using a display control board to turn the diplay into an external monitor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

a laptop that supports it

display control board to turn the siplay into an external monitor

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You can, if the laptop supports VLink/DP-in, such as the Minisforum V3.