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OK, remote desktops are fine, but we're talking here about *true* display exporting. In a way, that things displayed by Raspberry Pi on screen connected to it through HDMI, are an additional "screen" of N900. Not clone, not copy, just another X display. With custom set resolution (not up/down scaled like in remote desktops), with 100% real time, with same possibilities that you have when You connect your notebook to external desktops, and choose to use something like dual-view (independent resolutions etc in both displays).

At the same time - I say it again at *same* time, i.e. while exporting display, Pi may be used as ethernet to USB adapter, faster swap through Pi RAM and remaining USB network bandwidth (unconfirmed, but nice idea by sulu), or plentora of other purposes.

and all of this for 25$ or 35$, depending on ordered version of Pi. Somehow, I'm a little surprised, that this idea isn't echoing in the community as much, as I've hoped it will. It seems to me, that people either don't understand what opportunities this gives, or aren't acknowledging it yet. For me, this is at least as important project, as Hostmode used to be.

I think it will gather more interest, after actual proof-of-concept examples/videos using actual Pi. That's why I called here for knowledgeable people help, cause I'm total noob when it comes to exporting X display (heck, it wasn't even my original idea, SpeedEvil proposed it during IRC talk - I just had idea to use Raspberry Pi *somehow* to to achieve things I've described, and was pleasantly surprised, that it should be actually possible using (mostly) existing FOSS tools).

Yet, I'm definitely going to test it myself no matter what - even if it's going to take ages, until I educate myself enough to have working results.

/Estel
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