Pretty neat!
Just as a little side-note, Taskbar is Open Source and also available on F-Droid: Taskbar | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository 
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Thanks Rob I watched your instruction on you tube, desktop mode works fine on monitor with keypad and mouse. But the desktop mode on the hp elite x3 lapdock (which I still have from my Windows 10 mobile phones) is not stable. Is it too old, I wonder.
Thanks for posting this. Did you test the other dock from Targus you showed in the video with your Fairphone 4? I think its this one: https://uk.targus.com/collections/docking-stations/products/usb-c-travel-dock-with-power-pass-through-dock412euz
I am mainly interested in whether the Ethernet connection works. Because I tested a few docks myself and none worked properly in this regard.
Hi,
Yes this works with the Fairphone - I donāt use the internal Ethernet as I just plugged in the USB Ethernet dongle my daughtwr uses for her Switch.
I am using it to play Halo using XBox GamePass.
Cheers,
Rob.
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Thanks Rob, I will give it a try.
@Robs_Shed_of_Tech Thank you for the video, quite impressive are the possibilities of the FP4 
I already used an external monitor (TV & computer screen) for my FP4, either wireless (Miracast) or with USB-C docking station (with DisplayLink Presenter), but I was not aware of the āDesktop modeā option in Developer Settings
However I got lost in your explanation for the laptop part:
- Is it a regular laptop? So can I use any laptop with USB-C port for this?
- How do you configure the laptop so it knows that he have to take the USB-C signal as an input instead of output?
- When you connect your two devices (FP4 and laptop) directly with USB-C, is your laptop already on (running Windows) or turned off? If I plug out the USB-C cable, do I go back to Windows?
Hi,
This is a lapdock NOT a laptop.
Itās a portable USB-C touchscreen 1080 13.3" display in a laptop shell with keyboard, touchpad and battery.
Kind regards,
Rob Knight.
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Hi,
Habing tried an HP lapdock, Iām only getting 2
720p.
I have now tested the Targus dock and it works flawlessly with my Fairphone 4 (with the normal 30 w charger plugged into the dock) and also my MacBook Pro. Functioning Ethernet and charging at the same time. Great.
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Fantastic!
I use the tavel dock plugged into my TV to play games using XBox Game Pass.
Thanks to Rob, it took me just a few days to get the desktop mode running reasonably 
I now even have a ādouble setupā: using a 12" touchscreen display mounted in my car (had a Samsung Tab S5e mounted same position before) and a uperfectmonitor 11.6" Lapdock at home.
Iāve been using Samsung Dex for quite a while now and itās quite helpful for my job and me. The solution now using the Fairphone is, of course, not as good and close to perfect as Dex. It took some trial and error to set up things. I also havenāt managed to get Second Screen running, which might make things easier and smoother.
Are there other FP users interested in an exchange about using the the desktop setup and the apps used for it? Since documentation is not really existant, it might be a resource for anyone interested.
Please contact me if interested. I have the technical means to set up a communication platform.
Regards, Haimo
(southern Germany)
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Hello Haimo,
How did you manage to activate the desktop mode at the fairphone?
Answer is warmly welcome also in german
BR
Hardy
Hey Rob, I canāt open the video. It says its private.
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Open now - Ive made it public.
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Hi Rob, how to adjust the Screen Resolution to eg. 4K aka 3840*2160 ?
Thank you @Robs_Shed_of_Tech.
Today arrived my new dock support and Iām trying desktop mode now (with eOS) and Iām very happy to learn this useful possibility, scroll in a wide screen, use mouse and keybordā¦ very happy!
Hello everyone!
Today I noticed that I lost the nice pink-landscape background on the desktop mode.
Instead I have a black background. 
I wonder if itās just me (some settings to adjust) or if this is linked to a recent system update (Iām on Android 12 - build B.065)
Could someone check, please?
I found the video on yt and it didnt worked so well for me. BUT:
Im already using Microsoft launcher and it already provides a decent desktop mode.
for more than just mirroring you need to do the steps on the developer mode like in the video, but then you will get a horizontal view of your phone. (but its an extra screen, no mirror)
and you will be able to run apps in windowed mode etc.
But gestures etc. will stay phone like, that can be annoying.
P.S.: anyone knows a way for a real linux desktop mode? Like emulator or something?
You can use termux and install a linux distibution inside it with proot-distro.
Inside the linux system you can install xorg and a vnc server. When the vnc server is running you can connect to it with a vnc-client installed on the phone.
In my case i run arch linux with the enlightenment desktop and connect to it with AVNC. It runs, but it is a little bit slow.
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Sounds funny, but also like too much work.
Could also use my Raspberry Pi, a VPN and VNC.
But i think i will just search for Android Apps which would fit to Desktop work situations.
Ah and if someone uses a physical keyboard without extra home, back, recent App fn-keys:
Home: alt+esc
Return: Ctrl+alt+backspace
recent Apps: alt+tab
Anyway, nice that it works.
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