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[Question] (Wayland, KDE Plasma) How can I use another PC as a second monitor? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Idea

Primary laptop will run DE with 1 screen (its own).
Second laptop is to be used as a secondary (extended) monitor for primary laptop.
Both laptops will run Linux.

Tested solutions and their issues

krfb-virtualmonitor:

Creates virtual display and runs a VNC server, exactly as desired.
Issue: Slow as hell. FPS become SPF even on 0.3ms 1Gbps point-to-point connection.

KDE Connect virtual display

Creates virtual display and runs an RDP server, exactly as desired.
Issue(s): Really needs that high quality connection to run reasonably well. That isn't much of a problem, I can use a cable. The biggest problem is, no matter the settings, both with Remmina and KRDC the mouse pointer does not show up. Silly issue, but yeah.
Also, the Debian 13 KDE Connect package is too outdated to work with this, but I was able to use it in KDE Neon and Arch.

So, basically what I want exists, just with a major bug. Not seeing the mouse pointer is quite a problem.

Also, at first I hoped to use the already existing "network", my phone's hotspot. I can get 300Mbps and 3ms between phone and client. But between 2 clients? 400ms and with ping I see 1/3 of packets being duplicated.

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[–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

What I mean is the mouse cursor isn't there when I move it over there. Well, isn't visible. It still interacts with objects.

Same as this person's issue: https://discuss.kde.org/t/show-cursor-on-virtual-display-kde-connect-krdc/43421

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    If I get a minute I'll see if I can replicate, but my initial guesses are:

    1. Hardware cursor mismatch: try disabling hardware acceleration on the client OR see if there is a setting for forcing or disabling hardware cursors
    2. Check the CLI arguments for cursor specific options and mapping to movement. Sometimes there are movement acceleration tweaks that mess things up

    Edit: also maybe give this a shot. https://www.azdanov.dev/articles/2025/how-to-create-a-virtual-display-for-sunshine-on-arch-linux

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