Use my Tablet PC as a Wacom Cintiq

[octopus41092]

I'm not sure if this is in the best category but... is there any way to get my Tablet PC hooked up to my main computer and basically use it as a Wacom Cintiq.

What I have in mind is for my PC to run at 1680x1050, and my Tablet PC run at 1440x1050 and have it be able to scroll around and see what the monitor on my PC sees and be able to use the Pen. I'm also fine with having to turn down the resolution on my PC or having it scale accordingly but I'd rather not have to. My desktop is running Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit, and my laptop is running Linux Ubuntu 8.10 with compiz. Does anyone know of any programs that can do this or any ways to do this?

 

[IlllI]

does your tablet have vga out? if so you can hook up your monitor to it and bypass your pc completely

 

[Fox5]

You could use VNC. Install a VNC server on your desktop PC (UltraVNC and TightVNC are both good). Connect to it from your ubuntu laptop (Vinagre 192.168.x.x) and voila. You may have to enable tablet support in Vista to get the onscreen keyboard, but otherwise it should work just fine. Switch your tablet to full screen mode (and perhaps find a terminal server program that supports scaling...one comes with ubuntu but scaling is only supported with compiz off) and you should be able to use it like a wacom tablet.

You could also use remote desktop connection (RDC protocol) if you want to work strictly on the tablet, but accessing your windows programs.

 

[octopus41092]

Originally posted by: clandren
does your tablet have vga out? if so you can hook up your monitor to it and bypass your pc completely

Well, I want to use my PC since it's faster than my laptop by quite a bit so I don't wanna do that.

Originally posted by: Fox5
You could use VNC. Install a VNC server on your desktop PC (UltraVNC and TightVNC are both good). Connect to it from your ubuntu laptop (Vinagre 192.168.x.x) and voila. You may have to enable tablet support in Vista to get the onscreen keyboard, but otherwise it should work just fine. Switch your tablet to full screen mode (and perhaps find a terminal server program that supports scaling...one comes with ubuntu but scaling is only supported with compiz off) and you should be able to use it like a wacom tablet.

You could also use remote desktop connection (RDC protocol) if you want to work strictly on the tablet, but accessing your windows programs.

I've tried using RealVNC and it doesn't run real well. It lags too much for the pen to be of any use.

 

[Fox5]

The desktop PC lags using VNC? Try raising compression/lowering quality perhaps? Or try turning compression off if it's slowing things down.
Besides that, you could try the free unlimited trial of streammygame.com and use it to run apps. It seemed to retain lagless input on the server machine, no matter what the client looked like.