Vertical client monitor (updated version)

[dude]

Hi ,

As per administrator’s comment , I’ve updated the product to the latest version  which is a requirement for the forum’s approval,
So I’m posting this again

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I have Enterprise Desktop.

So far I’m very pleased with the product.

Version is 8.5.3 for the record. (latest)

Server is Ubuntu 18.04, headless

The thing is, I have multiple monitors on the client side.

Theoretically, I like the feature of fullscreen-on-all-monitors , but it has two issues I’m unable to solve,
The first, it does not emulate 2 monitors (or virtual monitors) on the server side (which I think theoretically is not a problem since the monitor is one you create yourself as part of the nxserver on a headless machine) , and so maximizing windows maximize them on all of the monitors instead of just one. The second, which is related to the first, is that on the client side, one of the monitors is vertical.

So what I need is a way to setup the server to have 2 “virtual” monitors,  and that one of them would be vertical.
So far the discussions I saw related to “virtual desktop” and the ability of the server to create few of them in parallel, But I ain’t looking for desktops, I’m looking for the same desktop on 2 monitors, while the server aware of the 2 monitors.

As far as I understand, if the server was not headless, but rather had 2 monitors, I was able to connect to each of them remotely while configuring the client (thus, connecting to the same server in parallel from 2 nx clients), while choosing on each of them different “monitor” of the multiple monitors I have on the server .

But first, as a user of the product, this seems to me like an automated procedure that the product can do itself,
And second, since the server is headless, and since I want the resolution’s limits to be dependent upon the client’s ability, not the monitor connected to the server.
This means I need to emulate a virtual/dummy physical monitor on the Linux side, right ? And so the question in this case would be up to which level (how low) should this dummy driver go in order for NX product to consider it as a physically-connected monitor.

As for Enterprise workstation product, from what I understood so far , it is about allowing multiple clients, (even multiple nxplayer window clients running on the same physical client-machine) to have a private virtual desktop of it’s own, all running on the same workstation server machine,  however, I’m not interested in different multiple desktops on the same time, not to mention that on a personal note,  I’m a private user (low on budget) so I currently cannot afford the product.

Anyway, any notes/suggestions/ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance

[Britgirl]

Hi

If I understand what you have written, you would like to be able to create multiple virtual monitors on a headless machine. We do this already, it’s available in the Terminal Server family (virtual desktops on Linux).

As far as I understand, if the server was not headless, but rather had 2 monitors, I was able to connect to each of them remotely while configuring the client (thus, connecting to the same server in parallel from 2 nx clients), while choosing on each of them different “monitor” of the multiple monitors I have on the server .

This will be possible in the future. For a later version, we are going to implement the possibility to have multi-monitors on the server side which can be managed as separate windows on multi-monitors client side. In each of these separate windows users will be able to apply all the usual settings, like applying a different scaling factor, resizing the window to any size, sending the window to fullscreen and placing the window in any desired location.

Unfortunately, we cannot give a definitive ETA. Development priorities are currently on NoMachine Network (www.nomachine.com/network) and v9. Work on the feature you are interested in may start after that.

Right now, what’s possible is to have multiple monitors on the server and you can cycle through the monitors on your client-side monitor (see https://www.nomachine.com/switching-the-view-between-multi-monitors-during-a-remote-desktop-session).

Additionally, if you have a Terminal Server (Linux) product installed, such as the Workstation, you can have multi-monitors on the client as separate monitors in NoMachine sessions. Doing so lets you maximize the session window, for example, in one monitor only, instead of going full-screen across all the client-side monitors available.

To enable it:
– Open the NoMachine menu panel inside the session (ctrl+alt+0 or click on the page peel in the upper right corner of the window)
– Click on ‘Display’
– Click on ‘Resize remote display’ then on ‘Fullscreen on all monitors’

You briefly mention using a dummy display dongle for your headless machine, this is an option. Take a look at our tips for headless machines: https://kb.nomachine.com/AR03P00973.

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