Laptop as 2nd monitor

A bit strange, but... I've got a new mac pro tower w/ a 23" Apple cinema display... by chance is there a way to connect my old Titanium laptop to the second (empty) video port in order to use the Titanium LCD as my menu monitor while I retouch on the main cinema display screen?
Thanks in advance.
douglas

It is technically possible.
There are a few windows only solutions available (see http://www.maxivista.com/ for example), but X has supported this via xdmx (http://dmx.sourceforge.net/) for quite some time now. See this article as well: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-mltihed/index.html
Not sure if an osx port exists for xdmx, but a quick google for "use laptop as second monitor" returns a lot of results.
Not saying it's a practical solution, just that it is possible.
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