Hello,
I want to connect my laptop running Mint to a Raspi thru HDMI. How to I enable my laptop as a monitor for the Raspi? Or can I even do that?
SOLVED connecting to a Raspberry Pi
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Re: connecting to a Raspberry Pi
You need an external monitor for that. Laptops have hdmi out, not in. 
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Re: connecting to a Raspberry Pi
I used to do what you want like this https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q ... -and-putty, ie run an X11 server on the pi and a suitable client on your laptop. There may be better ways now.
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Re: connecting to a Raspberry Pi
I found it easy to get VNC viewer to work on the PI to access its GUI, just enabled VNC access in raspi-config IIRC
Re: connecting to a Raspberry Pi
Thank you.