Displaylink app for mac

[scsjason]

So I have an M1 Macbook Pro and an imac and wanted to use the imac dsplay as a second screen for the macbook pro. I know that people are connecting extra displays using displaylink so it got me to wondering if such a thing as an application for the mac that implements displaylink so I could just connect the two together over usb ?

Is that even feasible? Is Displaylink some proprietary/patent encumbered format ?

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Jason

 

[Significant1]

My understanding is, Displaylink is company who manufacture external gpu with usb interface to various partners and the Displaylink software is the graphicsdriver.

I think you will have better success with software, that act as airplay recievers. They exists, but my limited testing wasn't to promising regarding resolution.

If your iMac supports Target Display Mode, you can use it directly. I do that (27" Late 2009 iMac).

I software, I would wish for a solution based MS remote desktop protocol. Which can use the client resolution fully and not limited to physical display on host machine.

 

[scsjason]

My understanding is, Displaylink is company who manufacture external gpu with usb interface to various partners and the Displaylink software is the graphicsdriver.

Ahh, OK. I thought it unlikely, but it just seemed tantalising close as a possibility.

If your iMac supports Target Display Mode, you can use it directly. I do that (27" Late 2009 iMac).

Too new.

I software, I would wish for a solution based MS remote desktop protocol. Which can use the client resolution fully and not limited to physical display on host machine.

Rather than remote desktop (which i associate with being a copy of the laptop display) I want a "second" desktop, in a window would be fine.

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Jason