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Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor
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#2This is cool. Maybe for copying you could spawn a text editor in your main screen with the content of the terminal in it?
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#3I love the suggestion to rebuild it for the browser. A tool like that could be generally useful. Anyone know of one?
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#4I love the suggestion to rebuild it for the browser. A tool like that could be generally useful. Anyone know of one?
tmux + ttyd (or gotty) could be used in a similar way. But it's not like an extra screen, it's more like mirroring a terminal to another device.
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#5Good idea. I did this with bash and awk and xev and xdotool instead of a custom program.
You can always use screen's cut-and-paste for stuff within screen, and screen's copy buffer and xclipboard for the rest.
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#7Computers still only have three mainstream input devices, keyboard, mouse and gamepad after 60-80 years
I'd try and bring the addition inputs a smart phone has to computers, like touch.
I know there are programable keyboards and many other things. But no one has cracked it yet.
It's a cool project as is. Just an idea if you were thinking of iterating forward.
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#8I love the suggestion to rebuild it for the browser. A tool like that could be generally useful. Anyone know of one?
Cocalc uses a websocket and xterm.js to implement terminals on a remote server. Each terminal session corresponds to a file (with extension .term), so multiple clients can open the same session by opening the same file. If you type in one session then all sessions will see the typing at the same time. (Disclaimer: I wrote this. It’s way too heavy for this use case, but might be an amusing demo or proof of concept for somebody to play with before writing something new.)
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#9Thats a cool idea, I have a Fire tablet (and a Kindle) that I still don't know why I bought it.
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#10Computers still only have three mainstream input devices, keyboard, mouse and gamepad after 60-80 years I'd try and bring the addition inputs a smart phone has to computers, like touch. I know there are programable keyboards and many other things. But no one has cracked it yet. It's a cool project as is. Just an idea if you were thinking of iterating forward.
There are lots of computers with touch capabilities out there.
From the gesture support on Apple’s trackpads to touch screens like the Surface (and plenty of other laptops with touch screens).
There are also stylus inputs and things like Wacom tablets that have been around for many years now.