Thread: Onyx Boox as monitor
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Old 12-08-2018, 12:30 PM   #603
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Originally Posted by elementarythree View Post
Monitor Mod 3: [...] constant high CPU load [...] high battery drain
The throttle is not in the mod (cannot be), it is in the original. Because of that drain I kind of set the HDMI aside (for VNC, had I had the time).

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bVNC in combination with tigerVNC server on the host - this one worked the best [...] or just use x11vnc. Stuff like Dwarf Fortress is playable, stuff like Rimworld isn't really. (full screen scrolls are brutal and work much better via HDMI)
I do not know how tigerVNC works, but x11vnc has to continuously scan the source screen to see if anything changed and report to the clients. Maybe the VNC server embedded in VMware (or other odd tricks) does a better job?
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