The following setup that I will be creating may or may not be supported but I wanted to see what solutions you guys can come up with.
Three monitors. Center monitor configured as 1050x1680 (widescreen in a portrait orientation). Monitors on each side, each 1600x1200.
What I want to be able to do is use this system to access other systems using remote desktop (or possibly another remote access method). I would begin by configuring remote desktop to span an area of 4250x1680, (1050 + 1600 + 1600)x1680. Using VDM I want to partition the single 4250x1680 display into a hybrid 3 columns and 2 rows (I'll explain what I mean in a moment) in order to create "dead zones" on the two side monitors. Graphically, this is what I would want to configure in VDM:
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| 1 | | 3 |
| 1600x480 | | 1600x480 |
|---------------- 2 -----------------
| | 1050x1680 | |
| 4 | | 5 |
| 1600x1200 | | 1600x1200 |
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At first I attempted to achieve this by splitting the display into 3 columns and 3 rows and setting the height of the virtual displays to 0. The problem with this is that the height of all of the virtual displays in the same row change together. I am unable to achieve this type of configuration because their heights are linked. The widths of virtual displays that are in the same column are also linked but this is not an issue for my setup. My first request would be to remove the requirement to have the heights of the virtual displays in the same row be equal.
A second concern here would be the fact that all of the virtual displays are active even if they are technically off the physical display. This is possible over RDC in my setup because the span contains the 1600x480 areas above each side monitor that is not physically displayed. Is there any way to mark a virtual display as a "dead zone" to prevent windows from being displayed in these areas?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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