VirtScreen

Make your iPad/tablet/computer as a secondary monitor on Linux.

VirtScreen is an easy-to-use Linux GUI app that creates a virtual secondary screen and shares it through VNC.

VirtScreen is based on PyQt5 and Twisted in Python side and uses x11vnc and XRandR.

How to use

Upon installation (see Installing section to install), there will be a desktop entry called virtscreen

Or you can run it using a command line:

$ virtscreen

Note that any files related to VirtScreen, including password and log, will be stored in ~/.virtscreen directory.

Dependancies

You need x11vnc and xrandr. To install (example on Ubuntu):

$ sudo apt-get install x11vnc

Installing

Debian (Ubuntu)

A PPA package will be available soon.

Arch Linux (AUR)

There is virtscreen AUR package available. Though there are many ways to install the AUR package, one of the easiest way is to use aurman AUR helper:

$ aurman -S virtscreen

Python pip

If your distro is none of above, you may install it using pip:

$ pip install virtscreen

but a desktop entry won't be created.

From the Git repository directly

$ python setup.py install # add --user option if you have permission problem