Configuration of a “Virtual Display”

[Lantizia]

Hey,

I’m going to give an extreme example scenario here to get to point a bit quicker.

Say you’ve got a ‘PC Engines alix2d3’ system… this little x86 board has no GPU, and the CPU (a Geode LX800) has no integrated GPU either.  So you have to administer any Linux installation purely via serial, no video output whatsoever.

Put to one side how well performing a system like this is today!… (as it’s quite old)

If you were to install NoMachine Free Edition on a board like this… then obviously no X.org session is going to be running… so it’ll start a ‘Virtual Display’ right?

So… where does it “take its cue” for which resolution(s) to offer up on that “Virtual Display”?  Presumably if you connect from a NoMachine Client that is a single screen laptop with 3200×1800 resolution, then its going to make a “Virtual Display” (on the alix2d3 board with no GPU) that matches your laptops resolution?

But what if you want two screens on the remote side? and to choose their resolutions?

e.g. say you *always* want 2 x 1920×1080 screens for the “Virtual Display”… that way no matter what client you connect from (no matter how many screens the client-side has, or their respective resolutions).

That way you’ll get the same two remote screens (at the resolutions you’ve specified)… and it means you don’t constantly have things on your desktop re-arranging themselves when you disconnect/reconnect from different clients (which each have different screens/resolutions).

Is this possible?

Thanks

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