NSnsonha·Jan 31, 2024
The question should've been "can a vnc SERVER serves as a virtual display?".
On that, I found https://github.com/kbumsik/VirtScreen
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VirtScreen
Python2018–2024
kbumsik / VirtScreen
VirtScreen
Make your iPad/tablet/computer into a secondary monitor on Linux.
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What it is
Make your iPad/tablet/computer into a secondary monitor on Linux.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI learned PyQt(Python+Qt) and QML while making a stupid Linux app just for my own need [1]. QML is a very cool language for GUI development. Like ReactJS, QML is declarative and reactive but has a very clean syntax. Here is an example of a single-button app using QML:
import QtQuick 2.9
import QtQuick.Controls 1.3
ApplicationWindow {
title: "Example"
visible: true
width: 300
height: 300
Button {
text: "Button"
anchors.centerIn: parent
onClicked: console.log('Hello')
}
}
You can see how clean it is. The main idea of PyQt+QML is writing JS(QML) code for GUI frontend and Python for backend. The downside (for web dev) is QML has vanilla JS only: no HTML5 API, no DOM, no NodeJS API. So you cannot take advantage of npm packages.
So the decision tree is quite simp
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le: If you don't want spend time on learning something other than HTML+CSS than go Electron, if you are willing to try much more native app then go Qt+QML.
[1]: https://github.com/kbumsik/VirtScreen