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# VirtScreen
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> Make your iPad/tablet/computer as a secondary monitor on Linux.
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VirtScreen is an easy-to-use Linux GUI app that creates a virtual secondary screen and shares it through VNC.
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VirtScreen is based on [PyQt5](https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro) and [Twisted](https://twistedmatrix.com) in Python side and uses [x11vnc](https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc) and XRandR.
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## Dependency
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1. You need [`x11vnc`](https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc) and `xrandr`. To install (example on Ubuntu):
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```bash
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sudo apt-get install x11vnc xrandr
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```
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2. Install Python dependencies:
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pip install -r requirements.txt
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```
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## How to run
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Simply run this in the project root:
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```bash
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./virtscreen.py
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or
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python virtscreen.py
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```
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Note that any files related to VirtScreen, including password and log, will be stored in `~/.virtscreen` directory.
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