Easily dual heading a laptop and a desktop

There are times when I need to use my netbook and desktop together. I’ve used a KVM setup, but sometimes I want to offload some of my screen space on to the netbook, then it gets annoying. There is a great solution for this called x2vnc

This makes the netbook a second monitor on my desktop. The setup is simple.

1. Install a VNC server of your choice on your laptop. I use tightvnc
2. Configure your vnc security, and start your VNC server
3. I keep my netbook to the right of my screen so I use this command to start:

    x2vnc -east -resurface 192.168.2.7:0

4. Enter your vnc password and now you can scroll your mouse to the right of the screen and just use it as normal.

It’s a really transparent and simple way to chain the screens together.