11/6/2022 0 Comments Rdp multimon not workingLet me share this useful nugget with you. #RDP MULTIMON NOT WORKING HOW TO#“No problem”, Martin said, “you can use RDP to connect to your VM”, and he showed me how to make that work as well. Although the Hyper-V connection uses RDP technology, there does not seem to be a way to do the same thing for Hyper-V – it’s either only 1 monitor, or all monitors. Kudos go to Martin, one of the IT leaders at one of my clients, for teaching me how to do this for RDP. I could have VSCode on screen 1, the app on screen 2 (both inside the VM), and Snagit on the host on the laptop. So, then I thought it would be nice if I could span my VM across just 2 of my 3 screens. I’d have to minimize the VM, start the Snagit screenshot with delay, re-activate the VM and hope that it would be back up in time for me to take the screenshot. I did try to use ‘all monitors’ in the Hyper-V connector, but then it would be difficult to take proper screenshots because I only had Snagit installed on the host. Very tedious situation with lots of clicks. I would have to switch between VSCode and the app inside the VM, switch to the host to activate Snagit, and then switch back to the VM to process the screenshot in the documentation. When I started including documentation (in markdown files) into my source code, it became difficult to work on documentation, because I would want to take screenshots of the app, and then incorporate it into the markdown file. #RDP MULTIMON NOT WORKING FULL#Writing documentation, I’d have the VM full on screen 2 and Word on screen 1, and then I’d use Snagit for taking screenshots. Doing development I’d have my VM full on screen 1, and other supporting programs on the host on screen 2. Note that the laptop screen shows a third of a fantastic looking multi-screen spacescape, mostly hidden by my 2 screen spanning RDP session into my VM on the two external monitors ‘screen 1’ and ‘screen 2’įor my daily development work, I use Hyper-V virtual machines, and I used to full screen it either on screen 1 or 2, depending on what I was doing. My laptop screen is just ‘my laptop screen’ :). I think of the middle screen as “screen 1” and the one on the right as “screen 2”. The first external monitor is my primary work screen, so it is positioned right in the middle of my desk. My desk has my laptop on a stand on the left side, plus two external monitors to the right of the laptop. Say you have three monitors, I will tell explain how you can span your RDP/VM across two of those monitors, while still using the software that runs on the host on the remaining monitor. If you use multiple monitors, and you would love to span your RDP session or your Hyper-V session across some, but not all, monitors, then this is the post for you.
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