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Specify which monitors are used for multimon

Specify which monitors are used for multimon

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TimoHar

Not sure if this is an RDP limitation; I haven't found anything yet that lets me do this.

I have 6 monitors hooked up to my desktop (hey, I had the cards lying around, so what the heck). I am connecting from Win8.1 to 2008R2 Standard. I would like to specify multimon on monitors 2, 3, & 4, but not monitor 1, 5, & 6.

I have been playing around with the rdp files in notepad to no avail trying to get it to work without RDM... so I am not sure if RDP even supports this, so if not, it is certainly understandable that RDM doesn't!

Thanks for any wisdom, or even a definitive "NO" so I quit wasting my time!

All Comments (4)

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David Hervieux

Hi,
I'm not sure if it's possible even with mstsc. Let me know if you find anything we could look into for embedded RDP in RDM

David Hervieux

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TimoHar

Will do! Right now it seems it's 1 or all with MultiMon. Kind of a cheesy workaround, but I am using RDP to all the monitors, then using TV from the 2K8R2 server to go back to the selected monitors on my desktop...

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Stéfane Lavergne

Have a look here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/665.how-to-set-the-monitor-for-a-remote-desktop-session-in-a-multi-monitor-setup.aspx

The trick is with : winposstr

You can set a custom winposstr in RDM but only in external mode (see image)



Best regards,

Stéfane Lavergne

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TimoHar

Thank you Stafane;

However, this is not exactly what I am searching for. With this, I believe that while it would be possible to set a span covering more than one monitor, you still can't use true multimon for anything but 1 or all of the monitors..

My Monitors are a hodgepodge of different sizes. I might try to get three of the same size together, and see if I can span them to get almost what I am looking for.

Thanks for your effort!