Re: [arch-general] Independent displays

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 11/06/2014 10:53 AM, Ade Devereux wrote:

Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 at 2:57 PM From: "Mark Lee" To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" Subject: Re: [arch-general] Independent displays On 11/06/2014 09:08 AM, Ade Devereux wrote:

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Hello list,

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I am wondering if any one can be help me in my quest; I am trying to get the display of a VM out on to my HDMI port on my latptop, possibly with audio. Whilst keeping my host on the main laptop display.

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In the VM I have setup X11RDP and I can connect to it with FreeRDP.

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Somehow I need something like FreeRDP to output the display to my external monitor.

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I hope I am clear in that I am trying to achieve!?

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MultiSeat is close but not quite what I am looking for..

Which window manager are you using? If you extend your desktop onto the external monitor, you should able to just drag the terminal to the extended desktop and run freerdp in fullscreen. Alternatively, you can use i3 to assign a workspace on an external monitor and run freerdp in that workspace.

Regards, Mark

I swap between XFCE and KDE4

I was hoping of another way really; could say for example LightDM with some sort of auto login create a freerdp session? eventually I would like to migrate this to a "headless" server that only has ssh access, with only the VMs using all the outputs, for example VGA, DVI, HDMI1 and HDMI2.

Salutations, How does one interact with the vms? If all input is done over the network; it's possible to launch a "server" user with i3. Simply autlogin to X with i3 and set each external monitor as a different workspace; launch freerdp separately on each workspace. Autlogin to TTY: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Automatic_login_to_virtual_console Autlogin to X: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Login Configure i3 per monitor workspace: http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_configuring_your_monitors Configure autolaunch in i3: http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_automatically_putting_clients_on_specif... If you have any additional questions about this configuration (details), you can contact me privately at my email. Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlRbn6YACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/bzfgD/VSTeZIV9zn1cQePzVYCOWkAl GDRyjUFYJQg7ITYvgm0BAJanKkj8VB3EAoItAPvEzIMESR4/As/cQWPNYJdoV/kc =OVD5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----