Hi Guys,
I was wondering if anyone here has a 7" or 8" monitor over hdmi connected to a laptop or desktop. My use case would be for a laptop connected over hdmi to run btop and/or a terminal on the small monitor.
However I’m not sure if these small monitors are supported by EOS/Arch running KDE/Wayland, therefor also this question.
As reference towards the monitors in mind or similar available on Ebay some pictures here below.
Many thanks in advance for your feedback/recommendations.
As far as I know, a monitor is a monitor. I see no reason why an hdmi monitor wouldn’t work on EndeavourOS or any other distro.
Thank you for the fast reply, I’m just a bit worried on the resolution under wayland with these small monitors.
7" 1024*600 isn’t very standard I think.
8" 1024*768 is a standard resolution and should normally work, fingers crossed.
I have a GeChick On-LAP portable monitor like these, that I can confirm works as a display.
Plugging it in just now, touch (which it does support) wasn’t working. However I’ve not really investigated that as I haven’t needed it yet.
Can I ask what the resolution is from your monitor?
My portable screen is 1920x1080, but when it first connected, it initially defaulted to a much lower resolution, I think 640x480 (stretched). I’m running it with a HDMI to DisplayPort adaptor, so I don’t know if that had anything to do with that.
I was able to quickly set the correct resolution though.
No worries, thank you. I guess I’ll just buy one an see what happens. Like mentioned above if it works for you guys the why wouldn’t it work for me.
Thanks again to the both of you!! Really appreciate your fast reply and advice.
I could be wrong but both 1024*600 (WSVGA) and 1024*768 (XGA) are VESA supported resolutions. Before you buy either of those…try checking your laptops GPU to make sure it fully supports VESA specifications. I don’t think EOS really cares but your GPU would.
Thank you for this cross check suggestion.
My laptop (ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506QM) has a RTX-3060 mobile on board that supports VESA as what i can so far find online.
Do we get such small external monitors? A quick scan on Amazon and ebay returned null. Even getting a 15 inch external monitor is difficult these days.
Try “portable” or “on lap” monitor perhaps? I’m seeing lots of results here, but of course it may vary country to country.
Thanks
portable monitor on amazon should bring up plenty of portable monitors that range in size
Reason I’m looking at these is to have some monitoring of my device, seen even smaller screens being used in desktop/gaming rigs and was thinking this might be a nice small and not so expensive project to play around with. Plus it’s easier if your desk is not too big to have a little screen sitting on it.
If this works well then I might also use it to monitor my server, headless currently but been thinking on adding a screen to is. Anyway that’s for the future when my wallet is in better condition 
Another category to look at are raspberry pi screens
Thank you for mentioning this option, I wasn’t sure if these screens were a possibility or not. Worthwhile looking into, as mentioned I’m looking for something not over expensive due to the flat wallet situation
Should easily be able to find plenty at less than $100 so wallet shouldn’t be a problem
Can confirm these work. I inherited a 7" one. Never found a use for it but plugged it in and recognized it as a regular monitor just fine.
As for Turning it into an info center on linux no idea. I know that people use MSI Afterburner and Riva Tuner/RTSS on windows no idea about the linux side of things
