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Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM

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Which is unobtanium? I just ordered a Dell 4K from Amazon about 5 days ago and it got here in 3 days.

The one specifically mentioned... As well as Dell's 40" ultrawide, that also has the built-in KVM (there are not that many models that have the built-in KVM).

Right. I ordered one on Amazon (but Dell is the seller) and got it a few days later. Amazon shows they (U3219Q) are still in stock.

Re: Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM

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Away from home at the moment, but this looks like it will “complete” my current set up very nicely. I have 2x Dell P2319H (1080p) monitors and have my work laptop connected via DP with my gaming desktop connected via HDMI. Then I have a dumb USB switch with a button on it to switch my USB devices between the two computers. If the other computer is off/sleeping the screens most of the time automatically switch to the…

This is really similar to my own setup, only difference being my monitors are 3k and a portrait 1200p. Been using Display-switch for something like 2.5 years too, and never had an issue with it!

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Before we get that deep down on monitor tech, I want review sites to tell me whether I can use the monitor/tablet/phone/laptop with sunglasses.

That’s more about whether your sunglasses are polarized.

I know! All sunglasses are polarized the same way. Gadgets seem to not be consistently designed to work with that polarization and review sites don't tell you. Phones are often diagonally polarized to work around this regardless of landscape/portrait viewing. But you don't swap orientation on a laptop.

My corporate Dell XPS 13 is completely useless outdoors because it's incompatible with sunglasses.

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PSA: Many 4K Dell monitors (like my Dell UltraSharp U3219Q ) have a built-in KVM switch and they support full DDC commands for switching the input as well (over HDMI, DP and USBC). I can control them from Mac and Linux with hot keys that trigger the appropriate ddc commands.

I have a shortcut on my Linux desktop to switch my Dell U3818DW display to its HDMI input where a second graphics card passed through to Windows is running on as a KVM guest. #!/bin/bash ddcutil setvcp 60 0x11 On my Windows guest desktop, I set up a shortcut for Dell Display manager to switch back to my Linux host and primary graphics card on my display's DisplayPort input "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Dell Display Ma…

Thanks. I also discovered winddcutil, for those of us on Windows with Dell monitors too old to be supported by Dell Display Manager.

https://github.com/scottaxcell/winddcutil

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