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Monitors and Screen Resolution
You can extend a remote desktop to multiple monitors. If you have a high-resolution monitor, you can see
the remote desktop or application in full resolution.
The All Monitors display mode displays a remote desktop window on multiple monitors. The remote
desktop window appears on all monitors by default. You can use the selective multiple-monitor feature to
display a remote desktop window on a subset of your monitors.
If you are using All Monitors mode and click the Minimize buon, if you then maximize the window, the
window goes back to All Monitors mode. Similarly, if you are using Fullscreen mode and minimize the
window, when you maximize the window, the window goes back to Fullscreen mode on one monitor.
If you have Horizon Client use all monitors, if you maximize an application window, the window expands
to the full screen of only the monitor that contains it.
Supported Multiple Monitor Configurations
Horizon Client supports the following multiple monitor congurations.
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If you use two monitors, the monitors are not required to be in the same mode. For example, if you are
using a laptop connected to an external monitor, the external monitor can be in portrait mode or
landscape mode.
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Monitors can be placed side by side, stacked two by two, or vertically stacked only if you are using two
monitors and the total height is less than 4096 pixels.
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To use the selective multiple-monitor feature, you must use the VMware Blast display protocol or the
PCoIP display protocol. For more information, see “Select Specic Monitors in a Multiple-Monitor
Setup,” on page 86.
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To use the 3D rendering feature, you must use the VMware Blast display protocol or the PCoIP display
protocol. You can use up to two monitors, with a resolution of up to 1920 X 1200. For a resolution of 4K
(3840 X 2160), only one monitor is supported.
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If you use instant clone desktops pools, the maximum number of monitors that you can use to display a
remote desktop is two, with a resolution of up to 2560 X 1600.
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With the VMware Blast display protocol or the PCoIP display protocol, a remote desktop screen
resolution of 4K (3840 x 2160) is supported. The number of 4K displays that are supported depends on
the hardware version of the desktop virtual machine and the Windows version.
Hardware Version Windows Version
Number of 4K Displays
Supported
10 (ESXi 5.5.x compatible) 7, 8, 8.x, 10 1
11 (ESXi 6.0 compatible) 7 (3D rendering feature disabled and Windows Aero
disabled)
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11 7 (3D rendering feature enabled) 1
11 8, 8.x, 10 1
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