Tablet or USB monitor as second display

Hello all,
I am in the need to have a second monitor, and it needs to be a low profile monitor (about the size of a tablet). Has anyone had luck using a tablet as a secondary monitor in Arch? I tried Splashtop Streamer and that didn't work. I couldn't get the monitor to see my PC, which is connected to the network via physical wire.
I also saw TwomonUSB, anyone have experience with this?
--nixIT
EDIT: changed topic to reflect tablet or USB monitor to use as a second display.
Last edited by nixIT (2015-03-02 15:57:57)

Been reading up on VNC, and apparently, it can be set up to use the tablet as a second monitor. Has anyone done this with Arch? Any help would be appreciated. So far I have these two links for reference:
http://slackfa.blogspot.com/2014/02/use … ended.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28608/ho … nd-display
Any other tips are appreciated.
--nixIT

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