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har936

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Registered: 2026-04-17

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using dual screen for arch laptop(main) and windows laptop(secondary)

I have two laptops.. One is running arch linux and another is windows. I want my main lap, which is running arch to have a second monitor. That is, the windows laptop screen acts as a second monitor.
I also would like to have my mouse and keyboard be used as common, like my mouse can move from this lap to that lap and keyboard also works on both sides.

I tried Deskreen CE, it gives good result, but it is just projecting the window or full screen. I want to able to move my mouse across the monitor and control/work on that monitor also, instead of it just showing the window or the full screen.

purpose of the idea : Using the Deskreen, i am able to project my live preview of my projects in the second window, so that i can have full screen html+css or some other workspaces and can code here in my main lap and can just have the preview window in the second monitor. Can be useful also when i try to code and develop apps in android studio, etc.,

seth

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Re: using dual screen for arch laptop(main) and windows laptop(secondary)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Extreme_Multihead#VNC but next to the caveats there I doubt this would work w/ wayland.

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ngoonee

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Re: using dual screen for arch laptop(main) and windows laptop(secondary)

With wayland I don't think (AFAIK) this is possible yet.

However a dummy HDMI plug (can be cheaply bought anywhere online I would guess) would solve this problem easily, in conjunction with your existing monitor-sharing method.

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