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tusqasi

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Registered: 2021-08-12

Posts: 1

How to a second laptop as a second secreen for main laptop?

This answer https://askubuntu.com/a/750497/1389593 gets me to the end without any issues.

But I can't use the mouse as I expected.

Expected:
It should travel to the second display when mouse goes over the screen
What happens: The screen moves over. What ever should be displayed on the second screen slides into the main laptops screen as I push my mouse into the edge of main screen.

How do I solve this?

One way i found is to combine two xservers and use that. But i can't find stuff about it.

what are my options to use the second laptops screen as an extra display?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,375

Re: How to a second laptop as a second secreen for main laptop?

Sounds like panning?

xrandr -q

and did you see https://askubuntu.com/a/240571 ?

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waitnsea

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From: France

Registered: 2013-02-10

Posts: 65

Re: How to a second laptop as a second secreen for main laptop?

It should travel to the second display when mouse goes over the screen
what are my options to use the second laptops screen as an extra display?

Hi,
I use

Barrier which works perfectly, but doesn't  give exactly a second monitor