[GRLUG] Xoom as external monitor

[Eric Beversluis]

I haven't found a portable external monitor. My second laptop is
significantly heavier than the Lenovo but still quite a bit lighter than
a monitor. Even with the second monitor I'm dependent on a network where
I know or can find out the IP address being assigned to the Lenovo. So
this works at home and at work but not, e.g., when I'm at Panera.

So it would be sweet if I could just prop my Xoom up in front of the
dead screen and via USB or Bluetooth have it function as the external
monitor.
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 21:25 -0500, Don Ellis wrote:
> No luck plugging in an external monitor? That is the most common
> solution I've seen (and I used it for a while, even though the laptop
> display was just fine).
> 
> 
> --Don Ellis
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
>         My laptop (Lenovo/Ubuntu 10.04) has a dead screen, so I've
>         been remote
>         desktopping using NoMachine.
>         
>         Just wondering if it's somehow feasible to use my new Xoom as
>         an
>         external monitor for the Lenovo rather than trying to remote
>         desktop in
>         from the Xoom. So far I haven't had much luck with remote
>         desktop.
>         PocketCloud worked but it took about 15 seconds for each
>         command to be
>         carried out--hardly practical. The Teamviewer/Wine app on my
>         Lenovo
>         crashes as soon as I connect from the Xoom: I can see the
>         desktop (but
>         not the error message) and move the cursor but can't do
>         anything from
>         the Xoom.
>         
>         I've gotten as far as getting the laptop to connect with the
>         Xoom, but
>         that looks like it's basically a setup for transferring files
>         between
>         the two.
>         
>         Thanks.
>         
> 
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