This is my git submodule of free stuff I use to develop on the Mac and iPhone with Xcode. Free means the MIT license. Beware that the rb.h and rb.c are licensed gnu as the are from libavl. Regards Jolly aka Patrick - author of: ScreenRecycler, JollysFastVNC, SmartSleep, SmartSokoban and more. DRI-SCREENRECYCLER-MINNE has been in the DB for a while, it is the number 26887. It comes from Equatorial Guinea. There are 9756 searches per month from people that come from terms like screen recycler or similar. More info about credit cards and frauds. In addition to the above, other software solutions are Jinx, who offers a product called ScreenRecycler. Couple this with a VNC client like TightVNC or JollysFastVNC (from Jinx), you pay once for the main computer, and can use any number (one at a time) of other computers as a remote display.
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Using a Mac as a screen is a neat capability, but a horrible waste of electricity.
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EMOJO: mojo no longer workin'
Waste is defined as spending something purposelessly. If gaining the extra screen increases your productivity or adds value to your work, then spending money for a new monitor would be the waste, and the electricity spent is actually a worthwhile use of that resource.
Of course, I know what you meant, but I refuse to participate in your guilt.
How To Share Monitor
If I see this correctly, this would allow me to have more than one external screen with a laptop?
You can also use it to have a pseudo second screen on a Mac Mini that is running a TV as a media centre. It's not quite perfect, but means you can do stuff on that machine without interrupting what's showing on the TV.
Well, TightVNC (installed on a PC) is unable to connect to my Mac (where Screenrecyler is running). I've tried changing the ports from the default 6900 to 7900, no change. The Mac can initiate a RDC session on the PC, so I know they can connect to each other. On the Mac, ScreenRecyler is listed in the Firewall as exempted application.
There might still be a firewall on the PC preventing the connection, but I have no idea how to check this. Or there are some settings in TightVNC that I would have to change for this.
Connecting Mac Mini To Imac
Switching the port in Screenrecycler to 5900 made it work (I had tried to set the port in TightVNC to 6900 but apparently that did not stick).