Help viewing a dual monitor setup with VNC 4.1.2

[Jim Bohnsack]

I have a dual monitor setup on my office desktop.  It is set up such that 
it acts as if it is one wide screen vs. the setup another person has in my 
office which looks like it is 2 separate screens.  I don't know if that 
makes a difference.

I use the RealVNC 4.1.2 server on my office machine.  When I connect to my 
office desktop from home, where I only have one monitor, the single screen 
"tries" to show both screens by having whichever screen "slide" over, 
dragging the other screen with it.  The screen I'm on depends entirely on 
which of my 2 office screens I would have the mouse pointer on.

I did nothing at all to the VNC configuration on either the viewer or 
server end to get this to work like that.  It worked just like that earlier 
with VNC 3.3.6 and VNC 4.1.1.

Jim Bohnsack

At 07:00 AM 7/21/2006, you wrote:

>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:17:58 -0300
>From: "John McCulley" <bigjohnsbruins "at" gmail.com>
>To: "VNC Mailing List" <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
>Subject: Help viewing a dual monitor setup with VNC 4.1.2
>
>Hi all,
>
>By searching the list I've determined that VNC v.4 should support viewing
>dual monitor setups, however I've been unable to determine how to accomplish
>this. The system that I'm trying to view has the taskbar on the secondary
>display, and that is the display that I see (not sure if the taksbar's
>orientation plays a part in this). I haven't found a way to view the primary
>display or a way to view both displays simultaneously.
>
>I'm running VNC on a WinXP Pro platform.
>
>If anyone can offer any assistance at all with this I will be forever
>grateful.
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>John

Jim Bohnsack
Cornell Univ.
(607) 255-1760