Comments on: Remote Desktop (RDP) window state

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:30:50 +0000

try this out for spanned accross multiple monitors

http://www.splitview.com/using-remote-desktop-with-dual-monitors-in-span-mode

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:55:15 +0000

My problem has been partially solved by this, but I still can’t quite get what I need. I have 3 monitors, each is 1600X1200. I would like to use two of my three for the remote session. So I have set the width to 3200 and the height to 1200. The part that this thread helped with was getting the RDP session to open on my 2nd monitor (the middle one). But I would like it to also use the third monitor as well. I have tried various combinations of values, but it always maximizes on the second monitor and will not expand to the third monitor. Any Ideas?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:06:47 +0000

Thanks a TON for the tip about editing the winposstr, Andrew! Thanks to you I now have my remote desktop session loading full screen on my second display just like I always wanted. :)

By: Mantrid

Mantrid — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:17:54 +0000

Wow, what a fidgety so and so. If you’re trying to do negative coords, for a 2nd monitor on the left, you have to be sure you don’t make the window go even 1 pixel beyond that monitor or the whole window will move to 0×0 on your main screen. What makes this particularly tricky is that working out the numbers on your main monitor is misleading as you can make the last two (right side, and bottom) bigger than they should and it works fine. That same “who cares” factor screws up your negative position. You really need to be exact, which is tricky because the window size needed includes the borders!

What I did was to manually extend the RDP window so there weren’t any scroll bars, hit alt+PrtScn to screenshot just that window and pasted it into my paint program (Pain Shop Pro) as a new image. Then I could see exactly what size the window needed to be. Here’s the details for what I was doing:
Main monitor was on the right of the 2nd monitor
Remote screen resolution: 950×864
Window size without scroll bars: 964×902
RDP position on 2nd (left) screen: Flush against the top and right of the screen (space on left and bottom)
Here’s the line that did it:
winposstr:s:0,1,-964,0,0,902

Hope that saves someone spending 20 minutes working that out :)

By: Tricky

Tricky — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:06:35 +0000

Brilliant Drool. This had been niggling me for months. Thanks very much.

By: Luciano Bargmann

Luciano Bargmann — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:08:28 +0000

I am Drool-ing Drool!!

That not only fixed my RDP monitor positioning (display RDP in Monitor 2 / second mionitor) but also allowed me to save my password on the .RDP file! Great!!!! Thanks!

By: Drool

Drool — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:39:13 +0000

I just wanted to add that it’s actually possible to save the position without directly hacking the .rdp file…

The trick is to get Remote Desktop Connection to return to the Options and Logon settings dialog (whereupon you get the chance to Save or Save As… – of course after you’ve manipulated the window position during the session).

First of all, if you have a pre-existing .rdp, either right-click and Edit or load RDC and Open… to load the settings for that session.

On the Experience tab, temporarily disable ‘Reconnect if the connection is dropped’ (you can re-enable this later). Press the Connect button to establish the session and place your window.

Then, you need to somehow disable the Internet connection (e.g. kill the ssh tunnel, disconnect the VPN or LAN etc.) This causes RDC to error and return to the dialog. (Logging off or simply disconnecting the session doesn’t seem to do this.) Now that you’re back to the session settings, re-enable ‘Reconnect if the connection is dropped’ if necessary and Save the .rdp. The .rdp now has the proper winposstr line.

By: Nullstring

Nullstring — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:05:33 +0000

Hey thanks for this info!

Writting an application “Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET (Open Source)” and adding a new feature of reading RDP Files

You can download “Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET (Open Source)” at CodePlex
http://multirdpc.codeplex.com/

By: Toby Simmons

Toby Simmons — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:55:02 +0000

Wow. And only nearly 3 years later ... here's an official word.

By: K.O.

K.O. — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:57:34 +0000

hi
I try to use msrdp ocx (MSRdpClient) programatically using MSVC6.0++.
I use IWebBrowser2 and Navigat methode to call a java script embedded in html
that download register and exec the OCX client , then I connect it.

When It is opened in full screen (theater mode) the Rmote Desk Top detache its
Display Context (or canvas, I don’t know what is the name of the disply of RDP WEB Client)
but when it closes the web browser Window remain open. I tryed to Dispatch the OnDisconnected event (I am using JavaScript Object instantiation and connection) using Java Script I don’t recieve any event to launch the javascript callback function.

can any body help me to learn how to attach the OnDisconnected Event using JavaScript (like it is done with VBScript in the MSRDP.OCX redistributed MSRdpClient_OnDisconnected()).
TX.
K.O.