RDP or VNC fullscreen using Nvidia surround and split monitors

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Douglas Lardo

3 discussion posts

While using three monitors with nvidia surround on, Win7 thinks I have one, large 5760x1080 monitor. When I enable auto-split with DF, I get three "sub" monitors. 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. This allows me to maximize most windows only to the sub monitor and works pretty well. When trying to fullscreen RDP or a VNC session however, (destination system is 1920x1080) the app still thinks that the full monitor resolution of 5760x1080 is the fullscreen option. Is there a way to get RDP to think that 1920x1080 is the fullscreen resolution and only use the auto-split "sub" monitor such as 1.3?

I currently toggle on and off surround support to make 3, 1920x180 screens to get the desired result but it would be nice if I didn't have to.

Thanks!

Jan 21, 2014 • #1

It's not possible to make the full screen RDP session size to a split, but you can launch the RDP session from a Run prompt and specify the width and height of the window using a command like this:

mstsc /w:1906 /h:1001

You can tweak the values as needed to make it smaller or larger