RDP - Maximum resolution?

[Homer J. Simpson]

Hi all,

I have an .RDP file that I've manually modified so it contains the lines:

desktopwidth:i:4096
desktopheight:i:1024

....so I can span a Remote Desktop window across three of the four monitors I
have hooked up to my main machine. This works fine, but as soon as I try to
go above that (horizontally), the RDP window comes up in 800x600.

Can anyone confirm that this is some arbitrary limitation that MS put into
Remote Desktop?

As mentioned, I have 4 monitors hooked up to my machine:

a) 1280x1024
b) 1280x1024
c) 1920x1200
d) 1280x1024

I'd like the Remote Desktop window to span across monitors B, C and D (thus
a total horizontal resolution of 4480), and leaving monitor A available to
keep an eye on tasks running on the local PC, so I have a gap of 384 pixels
horizontally that I can't use. I also have a gap vertically on monitor C,
but I can live with it.

It's not a huge deal, but I'm curious to see whether anyone is seeing the
same limitation or have gotten around it somehow.

Ideally I'd prefer to have an RDP window run in fullscreen mode across
monitors B, C and D, but based on my experimentation, mstsc.exe's /span
switch only works well when all monitors have the same resolution. Even if
it did, it doesn't look like you can use the /span switch to run fullscreen
on selective monitors--eg, it'll try to take over *all* monitors, which
isn't what I'm trying to do...

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have an .RDP file that I've manually modified so it contains the
lines:
desktopwidth:i:4096
desktopheight:i:1024

...so I can span a Remote Desktop window across three of the four
monitors I have hooked up to my main machine. This works fine, but
as soon as I try to go above that (horizontally), the RDP window
comes up in 800x600.
Can anyone confirm that this is some arbitrary limitation that MS
put into Remote Desktop?

As mentioned, I have 4 monitors hooked up to my machine:

a) 1280x1024
b) 1280x1024
c) 1920x1200
d) 1280x1024

I'd like the Remote Desktop window to span across monitors B, C and
D (thus a total horizontal resolution of 4480), and leaving monitor
A available to keep an eye on tasks running on the local PC, so I
have a gap of 384 pixels horizontally that I can't use. I also
have a gap vertically on monitor C, but I can live with it.

It's not a huge deal, but I'm curious to see whether anyone is
seeing the same limitation or have gotten around it somehow.

Ideally I'd prefer to have an RDP window run in fullscreen mode
across monitors B, C and D, but based on my experimentation,
mstsc.exe's /span switch only works well when all monitors have the
same resolution. Even if it did, it doesn't look like you can use
the /span switch to run fullscreen on selective monitors--eg, it'll
try to take over *all* monitors, which isn't what I'm trying to
do...

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maximum resolution for remote desktop in Windows XP
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One result:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...07ef-4767-8716-198d7f0949011033.mspx?mfr=true

Where it states:
"Monitor spanning allows you to display your remote desktop session across
multiple monitors. The monitors used for monitor spanning must meet the
following requirements:

• All monitors must use the same resolution. For example, two monitors using
1024 x 768 resolution can be spanned. But one monitor at 1024 x 768 and one
monitor at 800 x 600 cannot be spanned.

• All monitors must be aligned horizontally (that is, side by side). There
is currently no support for spanning multiple monitors vertically on the
client system.

• The total resolution across all monitors cannot exceed 4096 x 2048."