I am using several Win2K machines with multiple monitors and would be
interested in a modification to support viewing the other monitors.
Ken Malencia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Freeman (saurik) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Windows 2000 Win2K Win2000 -- Multiple Monitor Support?
>
> I actually worked on VNC a whiles back on this (around July I believe).
> What I ended up doing was a little of an overkill (he didn't even need to
> see the screen, he just needed to be able to move the mouse over there),
> but
> I actually got multiple monitors working. Not long after I read something
> on the mailing list that made it sound as if there was going to be more
> official support for this in some feature that had gotten added so I
> didn't
> bother announcing it to anyone. If it hasn't surfaced yet you may be
> interested in what I came up with.
>
> The modifications I made caused VNC to use the new APIs for getting access
> to the entire monitor state. I then messed with the mouse code to support
> strange values and do the math required to get the mouse to all areas of
> the
> screens correctly: figuring out how to move the mouse around was the
> hardest
> part. The end result isn't likely the best way to do it, but it does have
> some interesting properties. You end up with the VNC server serving up a
> really large frame buffer that is the bounding box of all of the monitors:
> any areas that don't map to a monitor contain semi-random, normally
> dark/black data (but luckily the way windows does this it isn't invalid
> memory and won't cause protection problems).
>
> If enough people are interested I'd be happy to add this to my list of
> projects, clean up the code, formulate a patch, get it working with the
> latest VNC code, etc.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jay Freeman (saurik)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Trevor Manser
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 1:10 PM
> To: Vnc-List-Digest (E-mail)
> Subject: Windows 2000 Win2K Win2000 -- Multiple Monitor Support?
>
> Hi everyone. I am running Windows 2000 on a PC, with 3 monitors
> comprising
> my desktop. Each monitor is part of the desktop, the mouse runs freely
> between screens. Really fun - great for development or editing... BUT:
> VNC
> doesn't seem to be capable of connecting to the individual monitors, just
> the primary one (the one with the task bar and START menus, etc.
>
> Does anybody know how to attach to the other two monitors using VNC?
> If that is not supported yet, are there plans to add it or modify the
> source
> code so that it can?
> Incidentally, the multiple monitor capability of Windows has been around
> since Windows98 - and exists in ME and 2000 as well.
>
> I tried attaching to port 5900, 5901, 5902 - just 5900 works.
>
> Any suggestions?? THANKS in advance.. Trevor.
>
> Trevor B. Manser
> Chief Scientist,
> Select Engineering Services/SverdrupTechnology
> phone: (801)774-0995
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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