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I would just like a nice way of using my nexus 10 as an external monitor -- I have tried a few things in Linux but nothing which really worked well.


have you tried this?

http://dmx.sourceforge.net/

I've used it to combine macs and pc's as one big display and it worked pretty good.


I tried Xdmx a few months ago. It failed pretty badly for me, so I blogged about it ( http://idupree.dreamwidth.org/2151.html ; choice quote: "Xdmx is broken in various different ways for various different people on the Web. Xdmx isn't very well maintained. It doesn't support XInput2 [1], it relies on Xinerama which is somewhat maintained but whose architecture needs improvement [2], it may be incompatible with Composite [3], it just plain segfaults for a lot of people [4], and is generally unloved [5]." — citations in blog post.)


There's also Synergy (http://synergy-foss.org).




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