![]() PRO TIP: whichever monitor you put first in the 'selectedmonitors' seems like it will be the primary display so from my experimenting you can swap the order of those to set up a different primary display (which makes a difference for the default for new windows and for how the taskbar notification area displays). Yes it works for any subset as long as they touch so if you have 5 monitors you can choose 2 of them or 3 or 4 of them.Įxample subset of file flagrantly taken from Scott's post, sorry Scott: span monitors:i:1 Add a new line to the file right after the 'usemultimon' line that reads 'selectedmonitors:s:0,1' without the quotes, where 0,1 are the monitors you selected from the previous steps. ![]() ![]() This last step does not have a way to add via the regular interface (yet, maybe they'll add it someday). Run the command "mstsc" to open RDP, setup all the settings and check the box that says 'use all my monitors' then SAVE the rdp file. Currently can choose all or 1 but cannot choose for instance 2 of 3 (full screen). Those the zero-based monitor numbers and be careful to pick monitors that touch (which can be challenging from the listing because it just displays a bunch of pixel mappings so monitor 0 is not necessarily next to monitor 1. Created on ApRDP settings for multi-monitor set up to use subset of monitors for RDP session ALLOW ABILITY TO CHOOSE SUBSET OF LOCAL MONITORS FOR RDP SESSION (FULL SCREEN) Allow ability to select a subset of current monitors with full screen. Run the command "mstsc /l" to get a listing of the monitor IDs available. It is effectively the same as checking the 'use all my monitors for the remote session' option. ![]() If you have created a default rdp profile that you click on, you can hand edit the RDP file and add use multimon:i:1 or whatever you need. And I SWEAR I saw this QA someone else on SO but can't find it now if someone wants to dig for it and mark as duplicate. To do this, run mstsc.exe /multimon from the command line. This is a 'newer' feature in RDP available WAY after the OP asked the question. Click the Display page on the right side.See the link in Jason's post, it has good information but I'll expand the full solution here.Scour through the AMD Radeon Settings program and despair at the lack of options to do anything useful. Turn off DCC/CI option (whatever that is) on the primary monitor. Update video drivers as often as possible. To change the scale settings for a better viewing experience, use these steps: Turn off Transient Multimon Manager (TMM), but registry entry doesnt exist on Windows 10. If you have a high-resolution monitor, you can use the scale setting to make things bigger and more readable. The scale settings can come in handy when using monitors of different sizes and screen resolutions for text, icons, frames, and other items the same size across displays. How to change scale and layout settings on Windows 11Īlthough Windows 11 applies the optimal display settings, sometimes, you may still need to change each monitor's scaling, resolution, and orientation. In contrast, the Second screen only option is great when you want to close a laptop's lid and work only with the external monitor. The Duplicate option is also good, but when using a second monitor or projector to show a presentation. Usually, you want to use the Extend option since it allows you to use the primary monitor normally and the secondary at their native resolution creating a single larger canvas.
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