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From: Tim Garton <garton.tim@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fake Dual-Head with VNC?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:24:00
Message-Id: 8fcf3b560610311017p6031ca64k538630f98cfdc49b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fake Dual-Head with VNC? by Randy Barlow
1 Yeah, Synergy sounds like x2x or x2vnc, both of which I had already looked
2 at. I will check it out though, thanks for the heads up.
3
4 Tim
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6 On 10/31/06, Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
7 >
8 > Tim Igoe wrote:
9 > > It sounds like Synergy would be a better solution to what you are trying
10 > > to do (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/). I don't use it myself, but I
11 > > was looking into it when I've sorted my laptop out, to use it as an
12 > > extension of my screen.
13 >
14 > This was actually the first thought that came into my head too, but
15 > Synergy just lets you use one mouse and keyboard on two computers.
16 > Meaning that what he will see on the laptop screen will be running on
17 > the laptop and not on the desktop (which is what the VNC solution would
18 > effectively do). Though I will give a shout out to Synergy - it's a
19 > really awesome utility and I use it a lot!
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