"How to Use Your Laptop as a Secondary Monitor" thread

[goldtoes]

Alright, got it. For some reason it doesn't like working through my domain name. Odd...

[_dave_]

Also worth a try is Synergy

Does a similar job I think, but also with Mac OSX and Linux machines if need be. Also it is Free.

Maybe it is missing some features tho, didn't check the maxivista site too much.

dave.

[goldtoes]

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Also worth a try is Synergy

Does a similar job I think, but also with Mac OSX and Linux machines if need be. Also it is Free.

Maybe it is missing some features tho, didn't check the maxivista site too much.

dave.

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Awesome man, I don't have time to check it out right now...

but thanks for the link! Open Source is always sweet [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[ScottySo]

I really want to do this but I have a couple questions.

1) My laptop is running OSX while my desktop runs XP, I noticed the program Dave posted should work like this, but will Maxivista as well?

2) how are your monitors connected? is there a cable connecting them directly or are they plugged in to the same router? something else maybe? I don't have any more space on my router to plug in my laptop, but it does have wireless. what do I need to do to make this work?

thanks a lot, great thread btw.

[goldtoes]

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I really want to do this but I have a couple questions.

1) My laptop is running OSX while my desktop runs XP, I noticed the program Dave posted should work like this, but will Maxivista as well?

2) how are your monitors connected? is there a cable connecting them directly or are they plugged in to the same router? something else maybe? I don't have any more space on my router to plug in my laptop, but it does have wireless. what do I need to do to make this work?

thanks a lot, great thread btw.

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1. MaxiVista will not work for Mac, yet they only support Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista x86 or XP/2003 x64

2. It just has to be connected to your LAN. My laptop is wireless. Then you install the client on it and mine auto connected.

[ScottySo]

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I really want to do this but I have a couple questions.

1) My laptop is running OSX while my desktop runs XP, I noticed the program Dave posted should work like this, but will Maxivista as well?

2) how are your monitors connected? is there a cable connecting them directly or are they plugged in to the same router? something else maybe? I don't have any more space on my router to plug in my laptop, but it does have wireless. what do I need to do to make this work?

thanks a lot, great thread btw.

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thank you. I guess I will try out synergy since that does work on my Mac. I will probably be back with more questions later, thank again.

[goldtoes]

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thank you. I guess I will try out synergy since that does work on my Mac. I will probably be back with more questions later, thank again.

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yea, I'll have to try to get Synergy fired up so I can test it out just in case people have problems.

[Freakin]

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thank you. I guess I will try out synergy since that does work on my Mac. I will probably be back with more questions later, thank again.

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yea, I'll have to try to get Synergy fired up so I can test it out just in case people have problems.

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Synergy is for a different purpose. It lets you control multiple computers and monitors with one keyboard and mouse.

So if you had one computer with two screens, plus a laptop, you could control them all with your main keyboard and mouse. It acts like it is an extended desktop, but it is an entirely separate OS and you cannot drag windows between the screen.