Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Change number of monitors at Remote Desktop session


The connection settings are saved to a hidden RDP file in the Documents folder by default. So, you can also open this file with a text editor and directly edit the values there to set up the multi monitor remote connection. Here are the steps to do so:


  1. Navigate to the Documents folder and make sure Show hidden items is enabled.
    rdp-file-show-hidden-items
  2. Open the RDP file with a text editor, add the following line, and then save the file:
    use multimon:i:1
    use-multimon-rdp
  3. If the display order is incorrect, execute the mstsc /l command in CMD to view all the monitors on your system. They’ll be listed as 0, 1, 2, and so on.
    rdp-monitors-list-mstsc-l
  4. Next, you can adjust the values for the selectedmonitors line to rearrange the monitors in the correct order.
  5. For instance, if you have 3 monitors listed as selectedmonitors:s:0,1,2, you could edit it to selectedmonitors:s:1,2,0 to change the display order, or selectedmonitors:s:0,2 to use 2 of 3 monitors.
  6. Remember to save the settings once you figure out the correct order.

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