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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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## How to use
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Upon installation (see Installing section to install), there will be a desktop entry called `VirtScreen`
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Or you can run it using a command line:
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```bash
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$ virtscreen
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```
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## Installation
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### Debian (Ubuntu)
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#### `.deb` package
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```bash
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install x11vnc qtbase5-dev
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wget https://github.com/kbumsik/VirtScreen/releases/download/0.2.0/virtscreen_0.2.0-1_all.deb
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sudo dpkg -i virtscreen_0.2.0-1_all.deb
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rm virtscreen_0.2.0-1_all.deb
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```
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### Arch Linux (AUR)
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There is [`virtscreen` AUR package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtscreen/) available. Though there are many ways to install the AUR package, one of the easiest way is to use [`aurman`](https://github.com/polygamma/aurman) AUR helper:
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```bash
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aurman -S virtscreen
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```
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### Python `pip`
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If your distro is none of above, you may install it using `pip`. In this case, you need to install the dependancies manually.
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You need [`x11vnc`](https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc), `xrandr`, and PyQt5 libraries. To install (e.g. on Ubuntu):
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```bash
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sudo apt-get install x11vnc qtbase5-dev # On Debian/Ubuntu, xrandr is included.
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```
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After you install the dependancies then run:
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```bash
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sudo pip install virtscreen
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```
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