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.
Something like Weylus?
Samsung tablets have this functionality natively, along with drawing tablet connections
I’ve gone the x11vnc on a dummy display route, but found the setup’s too much ceremony to want to use with any consistency.
Deskdock + barrier/synergy is slightly more ergonomic – your laptop mouse and keyboard redirect to control android when you move the mouse out of the laptops screen and onto the tablet, but both displays are showing their native OS.
It’s entirely tangential (not for android, not just a screen), but arcan does some cool stuff in this space. Here’s a video of “sever tunneling” https://youtu.be/jIFjzN7dk10?t=107 (fancy x11 forwarding; It looks fascinating, but I’ve never gotten it setup).
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Might be possible with Intel’s new Thunderbolt Share, but you’d need some hacks to make it work with present-day hardware and it hasn’t been released yet.
For the laptop, you can use an HDMI capture card and OBS to use it as a second monitor. Keep in mind though that it’ll only support the resolutions that the card supports so depending on the card you may be limited to only 4k or 1080p resolutions.
Spacedesk does this.
