![]() ![]() Remember: any multi-monitor behaviours you’ve tweaked elsewhere (e.g., ‘show dock on all monitors’) are respected by virtual monitors too. Now from the main screen of the app tap on the listed thumbnail to connect and hey, presto!įinally, head back to the Settings > Display panel to reposition your virtual monitor, configure the screen resolution, etc. Make sure you hit the ‘save’ button before backing out or you’ll have to do it again. In Microsoft’s app just tap the “+” icon, enter your PCs IP address 1, and the user credentials you created previously. Use an RDP client on your tablet/phone - I used Microsoft’s free Remote Desktop Mobile which is available for Android and iOS - to connect to your computer from your tablet using your local IP (plus the right login credentials, if set previously). You will want to set up a username and password too, to allow you to connect from a different device. Next, open the Settings app, navigate to the Sharing panel, and turn on Sharing, and turn on (once it appears) the ‘Remote Desktop’ option. This step is needed to enable extendable virtual monitors over RDP because, at present, the feature is hidden (and not polished enough for the masses to make use of yet - so be aware). Also, while I tested this in a Wayland session it should work in Xorg too, but YMMV.įirst, open a Terminal window and run: gsettings set -desktop.rdp screen-share-mode extend. The parts that make this possible are not included in earlier versions. You can connect multiple virtual displaysīefore you do anything make sure you are using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or a Linux distribution based on GNOME 42 or later. While this kind of feature is not ‘new’ new – it’s been possible to use tablets as external monitors (including on Linux) via the local network for a while – what is new is that all of relevant components to make this work well come baked into GNOME 42. You can ‘drag’ your virtual monitor to your desired location directly from the Settings > Display panel, and adjust the virtual monitor’s screen resolution independently of your “main” display. The virtual monitor behaves like a regular monitor. In a nutshell, any Linux distro with GNOME 42 (and above) can use a RDP-supported device (e.g., Android tablet, iPad, another computer) as an external monitor, much the same way as Apple’s SideCar feature (which lets macOS lets users extend their desktop to an iPad screen). So to help, GNOME devs plumbed in frame tracking and enhanced hardware acceleration to deliver a smooth-as-possible experience (though as the feature is network dependant don’t expect miracles on poor or slow connections). Using a tablet as a second screen through RDP asks for greater performance than being able to access a desktop over RDP (which can be laggy). This included the ability to extend the desktop to a virtual monitor as though it were a real one (and respect any multi-monitor preferences configured). We have GNOME developers to thank for this.Īmong the GNOME 42 features were changes related to support for the remote desktop protocol (RDP) and screen sharing.
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