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Dell U2718Q - connections

Omda Basha
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Hey guys, hope everyone enjoyed the vacations.

 

I bought a Dell u2718q monitor (very good deal !!), i will receive it in a couple of days. I am planning to connect my 2 laptops to it. one will be through the HDMI and the other through the thunderbolt (the only avaialble in xps 9360 for some reason !!). Now i have 2 questions please

 

1- can I use the included displayport to mini displayport cable to connect the monitor to the thunderbolt port in XPS 13? or is it a different port and I have to use a thunderbolt/ usb C to displayport cable?

 

2- i have a USB wireless mouse and keyboard, what will be the best way to connect those to both laptops at the same time without a lot of hassle. I thought of connecting the USB receiver to the downstream port of the monitor but I am not sure if that will allow me using them with both laptops

 

what do you think?

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1. The XPS doesn't have mini displayport, so you can't use a mini displayport cable. You have to use USB Type C to mini DP, DP or HDMI.

2. Synergy, I guess. It's an open source program, that is (seemingly intentionally?) made hard to compile, so they have an option in which you can buy the program. Otherwise you can also use a hardware KVM switch.

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thx for your answer. 

will it work with the following setup?

connect the monitor downstream to a usb hub, connect the 2 laptops to the hub, connect the wireless usb receiver in the monitor

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