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Extending full-screen across selected monitors - Amazon DCV

Extending full-screen across selected monitors

If there are three or more monitors connected, DCV can also extend full-screen across a selection of those available monitors. If your selected monitors cannot go full screen, an error message will appear and you will need to perform the procedure again.

Selected monitors must be set adjacent, or sharing a side with each other, in your display setting.

Examples of adjacent monitor placement.

Note

The blue boxes are DCV enabled monitors.

The gray boxes are other monitors.

Diagram showing transformation of rectangles from gray to blue, merging into larger shapes.

Examples of nonadjacent monitor placement.

Two blue rectangles separated by a gray rectangle, with a red X to the right.

If your monitors are not set adjacent in your Windows display configuration, you will need to exit DCV and change your Display settings on your local machine.

  • Windows client

    1. Go to the top menu.

    2. Select the Full Screen icon.

      Note

      The Full Screen drop-down menu will appear.

      Display options menu showing Across single monitor, Across selected monitors, and Across all monitors.

    3. Select Across selected monitors from the drop down menu.

      Note

      The Across selected monitors window will appear displaying your current monitor layout.

      Monitor arrangement diagram showing internal display 1 at bottom, monitor 2 at left, and monitors 3 and 4 at top right.

    4. Select which monitors you want DCV to be displayed full screen.

    5. Click Apply.

  • macOS client

    1. Go to the top menu.

    2. Select View.

      Note

      The View drop-down menu will appear.

      View menu with Full Screen Selected Monitors option highlighted.

    3. Select Full Screen Selected Monitors from the drop down menu.

      Note

      The Full Screen Selected Monitors window will appear displaying your current monitor layout.

      Monitor configuration interface showing four displays with monitor 4 selected.

    4. Select which monitors you want DCV to be displayed full screen.

    5. Click Apply.

  • Linux client

    1. Go to the top menu.

    2. Select Full Screen icon.

      Note

      The Full Screen drop-down menu will appear.

      Dropdown menu with Across selected monitors option highlighted in red.

    3. Select Across selected monitors from the drop down menu.

      Note

      The Across selected monitors window will appear displaying your current monitor layout.

      Dialog showing three monitors where monitors 1 and 2 are selected with blue outlines.

    4. Select which monitors you want DCV to be displayed full screen.

    5. Click Apply.