Hello. I have a powerful FreeBSD machine at home and carry around a (very underpowered) Linux laptop. My workplace has decent network connectivity so I use wireguard and connect to my powerful FreeBSD machine via VNC. This is also useful since I regularly suspend my laptop, and I can keep programs running remotely.
Recently I acquired an Android tablet, which can run tigervnc-viewer (through Termux & Termux:X11) just as nicely as my Linux laptop. My Linux laptop's screen is terrible and it would be great to use this tablet as a secondary monitor. I don't need touchscreen, so I'd like to keep using my laptop's keyboard/mouse and use the tablet literally as a secondary monitor.
Ideally I would connect to my BSD machine through VNC on both the laptop and tablet and assign each to a different virtual display, but I can't find a way to do so. I don't do much graphic intensive task so it doesn't matter much whether GPU accel works. (I have a monitor attached and run X11 session on the BSD machine too, so I sometimes connect to it through x11vnc and use vncserver with virtual session sometimes)
It seems like there's no such concept of "dual monitor" on VNC. Right now I've only went as far as running "xrandr --fb 3920x1200" (laptop is 1920x1200, tablet is 2000x1200) on the local x session which increased my framebuffer size and ran x11vnc. I can connect to it from both tablet and laptop, but as I can't lock one vnc client to only keep showing one screen it keeps scrolling around the large framebuffer. Also the mouse cursor doesn't seem to show across two VNC sessions..
Does anyone know a solution to this? Thanks.
Recently I acquired an Android tablet, which can run tigervnc-viewer (through Termux & Termux:X11) just as nicely as my Linux laptop. My Linux laptop's screen is terrible and it would be great to use this tablet as a secondary monitor. I don't need touchscreen, so I'd like to keep using my laptop's keyboard/mouse and use the tablet literally as a secondary monitor.
Ideally I would connect to my BSD machine through VNC on both the laptop and tablet and assign each to a different virtual display, but I can't find a way to do so. I don't do much graphic intensive task so it doesn't matter much whether GPU accel works. (I have a monitor attached and run X11 session on the BSD machine too, so I sometimes connect to it through x11vnc and use vncserver with virtual session sometimes)
It seems like there's no such concept of "dual monitor" on VNC. Right now I've only went as far as running "xrandr --fb 3920x1200" (laptop is 1920x1200, tablet is 2000x1200) on the local x session which increased my framebuffer size and ran x11vnc. I can connect to it from both tablet and laptop, but as I can't lock one vnc client to only keep showing one screen it keeps scrolling around the large framebuffer. Also the mouse cursor doesn't seem to show across two VNC sessions..
Does anyone know a solution to this? Thanks.