-----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" > <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" > <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [arch-general] > Independent displays On 11/06/2014 09:08 AM, Ade Devereux wrote: >> Hello list, > >> 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. > >> In the VM I have setup X11RDP and I can connect to it with >> FreeRDP. > >> Somehow I need something like FreeRDP to output the display to my >> external monitor. > >> I hope I am clear in that I am trying to achieve!? > >> 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_specific_workspaces> 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-----
