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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Adding an xserver to xorg.conf?
From:       Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () oracle ! com>
Date:       2016-10-31 0:26:15
Message-ID: ffbbc948-bd7b-d741-3b2d-21a096e3d921 () oracle ! com
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On 10/30/16 04:13 PM, Simon Roberts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to add an external XServer (running on a tablet device as it happens,
> though I doubt that's significant) to the configuration of my windowing system,
> and hopefully have it visible to xrandr, so I can use it as another display
> alongside my regular laptop screen.
>
> I assume that I'd need to add, for example, 192.168.2.44:0
> <http://192.168.2.44:0> into my xorg.conf, but I'm drawing a complete blank on
> how I might achieve this.

In theory you can do this with the xf86-video-nested driver, but I've never 
tried it:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nested/tree/README

Other options would be using a multiplexer/proxy such as Xdmx (FOSS) or XBIGX
(commercial software from X-Software).

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith@oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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