![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now you should be able to move your mouse past the right edge of your primary Mac’s screen and see it appear on the other Mac’s screen.Ĭongratulations, you’ve just extended your Mac’s desktop to another Mac using ScreenRecycler. Be sure to change JollyFastVNC to full screen to get the best view. ScreenRecycler uses Bonjour, so with the ScreenRecycler and JollyFastVNC running on the appropriate Macs they should automatically connect to each other. Once the Mac restarts you will need to run the ScreenRecycler application again so it is actively running.Ĭopy the JollyFastVNC application to your applications folder and run it on the Mac whose monitor or screen the desktop will be extended to. To do this, just hit “Install.”Ĭontinue through the steps for the install and click “Restart” when it is done. ![]() If it asks, be sure to install the ScreenRecylcerDriver. Open the dmg file that you downloaded by double-clicking.ĭrag the ScreenRecycler app to your applications folder on the Mac whose desktop you want to extend. You may need to disable or open up ports on your Mac’s firewall.ĭownload ScreenRecyler (see Resources below for a free download). Make sure that both your Mac and the other machine are on the same local area network and can “see” each other. Elgato makes Firewire compatible capture devices which can capture S-Video. If you use Firewire over IP on Mac OS X 10.5, 10.4, or 10.3 reasonable speeds can be obtained. But at least you know what to look for.Ever wanted to have a dual monitor setup for your Mac but have a laptop or other Mac that can’t have a second display attached? Now you too, can have multiple monitors by extending your Mac’s desktop onto the screen of a second Macintosh computer or even another monitor on a Windows-based computer. Screen Recycler The speed of your network though can make such solutions appear too slow for words. Now that I wrote this out and tried to look for the software I used to do this a few years ago, it’s looking like they might not be available now. The way Teleport worked was if you have Mac A and Mac B with their own screens, and you pushed the mouse to the edge of Mac A’s screen, it would jump to Mac B’s screen and now you are controlling Mac B. What you want is software like Teleport, although Teleport itself seems to not be available any more either. To switch between the controlling Macs, again some of the uninformed will suggest VNC or Remote Desktop/Screen Sharing, but those won’t work as virtual KVMs. Even if you find a working current application that does this, you should know that it will be much slower than a second monitor connected using a normal video port. ScreenRecycler itself is no longer developed and probably no longer works with current Macs, so if your Mac laptops are running newer macOS, you will want to find a current ScreenRecycler alternative: An application that lets a second Mac be an extended desktop, but through a network connection. You want to use something like ScreenRecycler. Some will say “Oh, like VNC/Remote Desktop” but no, it isn’t like that because those mirror, they do not extend the desktop. To let one Mac laptop be the display to the other, you can use a workaround that pushes video through the network connection, but appearing as a second monitor. They are a little Rube Goldberg, but they can work. Good news is that there are ways to accomplish it. There is no built-in way to do what you want, because no Mac laptop has the built-in ability to function as an external monitor (some iMacs have Target Display Mode, but no Mac laptops do). ![]()
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