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Using my iPad as a Second Monitor with KDE Plasma

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When traveling it is sometimes helpful to have access to a second monitor. An iPad does a passable job for this when your traveling and just need a little more screen real-estate.

krfb-virtualmonitor --name WirelessDisplay --resolution 2420x1668 --password "$PASSWORD" --port 5900

Then connect to the VNC server using an iPad app client.

Author
Robert Underwood
Robert is an Assistant Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory focusing on data and I/O for large-scale scientific applications including AI for Science using techniques of lossy compression, and data management. He currently co-leads the AuroraGPT Data Team with Ian Foster. In addition to AI, Robert’s library LibPressio, allows users to experiment and adopt advanced compressors quickly, has over 200 average unique monthly downloads, is used in over 17 institutions worldwide, and he is also a contributor to the R&D100 winning SZ family of compressors and other compression libraries. He regularly mentors students and is the early career ambassador for Argonne to the Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing.