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Originally Posted by e-enker
What I have thought about too is that it would be a solution for me if an epaper screen could be used as a secondary display for a laptop so that the image of the monitor is automatically displayed on the epaper device, but I suppose this doesnt work neither now nor in the near future.
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You CAN use the iliad as a remote screen for a computer running UNIX (i.e. Linux). Specifically, when you launch a program from the command line in your computer running UNIX/Linux, you can specify that you want it displayed in another screen, and if you have the iliad connected through ethernet, it is able to display it.This way, the browser window is shown in the iliad instead of the screen on the computer. It has been tested with xepdmgr program to handle the screen refreshes. The catch to this is that you get lots of annoying refreshes and also there is the problem with input in the iliad (you have to use the on-screen keyboard). But this is doable NOW.
Another alternative is to use a vnc client in the iliad and connect to your PC with it. The only requirement for this is having a VNC server in your PC allowing other computers to share your screen. This one has the drawback of the refreshes (again, and probably more problematic that the previous case). Adam had a vnc client running on the iliad for the April fools in this thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?p=166027 but I don't know if his ported vnc was released or not.
So it's possible that an iliad fulfills your needs. Another problem you have to ponder is that you would need someone to setup you PC and the iliad to play nice together (installing the vnc server in your PC, configuring the iliad for the ethernet connection and installing dillo's connection scripts, installing the vnc client, installing scripts to start vnc connecting to your PC).