Re:Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
by lordofgibbons on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:15PM
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You can already do this with KDE Connect on your phone. And you don't need to be running KDE for it to work on your desktop - it works with Gnome too.
Re:Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
by KerrickStaley on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:17PM
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Could you give a link to docs on that? I visited https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ but didn't see this feature mentioned.
Re:Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
by pronoiac on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @07:13PM
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I think it's treating the phone screen as a touchpad, not moving the phone like a mouse - https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Virtual_Input
Re:Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
by sudosysgen on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:54PM
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I dont know if its in the docs but it definitely works (just tested it)
Forget mouse, I want to use a phone as a computer. I think the only hardware you can buy for less than a thousand dollars with arm SVE support is a phone, would be nice to just boot into debian seamlessly and run a test suite.
Re:Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
by kzrdude on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:05PM
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Does this include using the phone as a touchpad? That would be cool and useful.
Re:Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
by michaelmrose on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @07:50PM
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Yes it also does text input including special keys, multimedia controls, app specific controls like Netflix and support for windows and Linux.
Re:Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
by vorpalhex on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:12PM
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"Unified Remote" for Android (paid, proprietary) works quite well for mouse control. No display sampling but it's not really needed.
Re:Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
by themodelplumber on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:31PM
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A little bit different but I hear the Sony VAIO VN-CX1 clearing its throat somewhere in the periphery...
I think it'd be cool if you could use a cell phone as a mouse. You'd have a mount that holds the back of the phone slightly off the table, and the phone would track its position using the IMU and maybe motion tracking with the camera. The phone display could show a subregion of the monitor and you could click by tapping the phone screen.