Dual Monitor/Display – Ubuntu

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Hi,

I have a QEMU (VM) running Ubuntu 16.04 and I am trying to connect to it via NoMachine from my local windows PC which has two physical monitors.

When connecting with NoMachine, I would like to have the display of my Ubuntu VM span over both of my monitors without messing up the resolution (much like RDP). Such that my NoMachine session treats the connection as two separate/physical displays (like my local pc) as opposed to treating the connection as one display which is simply ‘stretched’ to cover my two screens.

 

Please help!

[graywolf]

Hello, I guess you are using virtual display sessions, in that case is this feature what are you searching for?
https://www.nomachine.com/FR12K02799

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Can you please elaborate on what you mean by virtual display sessions?

How can I achieve this?

Regardless this https://www.nomachine.com/FR12K02799 is exactly what I’m trying to achieve in the sense that I want to “treat each monitor individually”.

How can I achieve this?

Thank you!

[graywolf]

See: What is the difference between physical desktop and virtual desktop

By installing any of the products from the NoMachine for the Enterprise range (except Enterprise Desktop and Cloud Server) instead, you can run “virtual desktop sessions”. The virtual desktop functionality allows individual multiple Linux desktops to run on the same host. Each user can have their own personal ‘virtual’ Linux desktop according to how the Administrator has configured it.

FR12K02799 is not implemented, yet. You can select option to be notified about progress. By the way, check if you need a “virtual session” or a “physical desktop sharing” at first. In the latter case, maybe you need to add virtual screens in your virtual machine.

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Thanks for your reply.

I suppose I need physical desktop sharing.

Essentially I have a virtual machine on Proxmox running Ubuntu 16.04 and instead of having NoMachine seeing only one display, I want to treat each of my client monitors individually, much like Windows does when using RDP.

Currently, when I access the Ubuntu Server with NoMachine and I maximize a window, the maximized window spans across both of my monitors instead of just maximizing onto one monitor. Thus, it is being treated as if I have one extremely wide monitor instead of two regular monitors 🙂

[graywolf]

I think that using NoMachine “virtual display” sessions along with feature FR12K02799 you’d achieve the closest thing to the RDP behavior you described.

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