Dual screen workflows without screens across operating systems Background My X380 sadly has been having port issues. This meant that my M14 was no longer a viable option for my second screen needs. Outline The general form of the solution works in one of two ways: VNC Viewer Where the (second-screen) laptop connects to a VNC server on the primary laptop Peripheral Shares Where the secondary laptop runs a server to enable proxying mouse and keyboard access from the primary laptop VNC and Windo...| rgoswami.me
A short post detailing the many trials and tribulations of setting brightness on multiple monitors in tandem. Background As regular readers might know, I have a multi-screen setup, which accounts for having touch enabled on my primary laptop screen (detailed here). A failing of this setup was that I was not able to control the brightness of both monitors at the same time. Existing Stack Since I use i3, my brightness control is simply done with bindsym lines as follows1:| rgoswami.me