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Span on multiple monitors when logged into a Citrix session via Citrix Receiver (or Citrix server)

I am using the Citrix Receiver in Windows 8, and on Windows XP on another PC. I often log into work from home and am unable to span the session to dual monitors like one can easily do when using "mstsc" (Remote Desktop) by using "mstsc /span". Can…
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Remote Desktop specify the monitor to open on

Is there any way to make Remote Desktop v6 open on a specific monitor in a dual monitor setup? I know it supports dual monitors and it is easy to make it use both monitors, but what I really want is for all of my RDP sessions to open on my secondary…
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Add multi monitor option to remote desktop web access

I have a test environment for a remote desktop farm with a connection broker load balancing logins across remote desktop session host servers. All servers are built on Server 2012 R2. Using rd web access, we can access this farm from anywhere. When…
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RDP Dual Screen Linux

we have a Windows Terminal Server and like to have Linux Clients which connect through rdp to the terminal server. All works fine except that we cannot find a linux rdp client which supports multiple screens (like the windows rdp client…
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Server 2008 Remote Apps

I have set up remoteapp, and according to all the documentation that i have found, the application should be able to span/move across a dual monitor setup. I found that the rdp file should include desktop span:i:1, which it does. The application…
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Thin-client with dual-monitor support

I'm doing a feasibility study on migrating 30 of our in-house researchers from desktop towers to thin-clients. The problem (among others) that I'm facing is that our researchers have grown used to dual-monitors. Can anyone suggest a good thin-client…
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What would cause Wyse C10LE Thin Clients to suddenly be unable to use dual displays after Windows Updates?

Problem We have a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 SP1 Remote Desktop server with a handful of users logging in from Wyse C10LE thin clients running the Linux-based Wyse ThinOS. A user turned on automatic updates and the server…
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Windows remote controle for dual monitor setup

as mentioned in some other questions plenty of remote control tools remote-support-tool There are some other options but i often run into the same obstacle I have a dual monitor setup and the computers i need to remote control ( to assist the people…
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Two identical displays, two identical graphics cards, totally different picture quality

UPDATE - Definitely a driver issue. Problem goes away when I uninstall nvidia drivers, comes back when I reinstall them. I'm having a really strange hardware problem. I have a workstation with two displays, they're both identical V173 ACER monitors.…
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No screen on boot, server is very noisy

I am able to use an outdated server from my work to do some testing at home as I'm pretty new to the hardware part. When booting the server remains very noisy, even after 15 mins. I'm also unable to have any output on my monitor. The server is a…
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RemoteApp file menu shows in alternate location with multi monitor

I deployed RDS on Windows 2012R2 Servers. I used that for publishing RemoteApp. RemoteApp works just fine. However, I run into display issue on multi monitors with applications (Notepad, Wordpad, 3rd party applications). If I have Notepad openS…
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Xinerama + compositing

I'm using KUbuntu 9, and two monitors: CRT+DVI. Nvidia's TwinView works fine, but enabling Xinerama extension disables compositing in KDE. Is there a way to enable compositing (desktop effects) with Xinerama? Why does this happen?
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Multi-monitor RDP session on an EC2 instance running Windows Server 2008 R2?

When I RDP into a Windows Server EC2 Instance I'd like to be able to use multiple monitors. It doesn't have to be RDP, but I want to be able to have multiple monitors, not a spanned display. I've tried: Checking: Use all my monitors for the remote…
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Dialogs appear on wrong monitor with SQL Server Management Studio 2008

I am running SSMS 2008 on Windows 7 with a dual monitor setup (one large, one small). SSMS is running on the secondary monitor, but everytime a dialog is opened, the dialog is placed on the primary monitor instead. I've tried moving the dialog over,…
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Fullscreen apps on linux multi monitor setups

Whats the best / easiest way to prevent full screen apps in linux from spanning all monitors. In windows a full screen app will only take over 1 monitor. I'm using the Nvidia drivers with Twinview
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