How do I use dual monitors with Remmina Remote Desktop Client?

Question

I am trying to use my two monitors when I use Remmina remote desktop client. There is no option for using all monitors like RDP in Windows.

Does any one know how can I accomplish that with Remmina?

This is the option I'm talking about in Windows RDP:

I've added multi monitor support from Remmina 1.4.11, it's still experimental, and I count on some testing to reach a good maturity level. — tmow, Apr 19 '21 at 14:57
Just wanna to give a quick update, thanks to some awesome guys, multi monitor support is now available for remmina > v1.4.10 (reddit post). You might need to install a newer version (here). View here how to enable multi monitor support. — ponteshare, Dec 11 '21 at 09:56

score 33 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 04 '19 at 16:21

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I think that remmina can't do this at the moment.

But you can use the xfreerdp command from your terminal:

xfreerdp /multimon /u:username /v:server_address:server_port

where username is your username on server, server_address is server location (IP address or hostname) and server_port is port (leave empty without ":" for default port).

If you don't have xfreerdp installed, you can install it from terminal:

sudo apt-get install freerdp2-x11

edited Jul 04 '19 at 16:21

Tobias Feil

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answered Sep 17 '13 at 15:01

betatester07

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I tried to follow your instruction to Win Server 2008 box. Unfortunately getting Error: protocol security negotiation failure error. What can be causing it? – radek Apr 01 '14 at 15:18
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I think you may have similar problem as user44439 in this question (see first comment under accepted answer) – betatester07 Apr 03 '14 at 13:18
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As in my answer to that question, the default installed xfreerdp for Trusty is 1.0.1 which has no Multimon support - you need the newer version. In addition, be sure that your target RDP server supports it - Windows 7 "Professional" does not (presumably to encourage you to upgrade). – Adrian Jun 19 '14 at 08:22
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/d:domain may be useful too – Andy Joiner Jun 05 '15 at 14:43
is this still the case in 2018 ? – user230910 Jun 20 '18 at 03:31
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@user230910: as there's not an option to use multiple displays in Remmina 1.2.0-rcgit-29 (git rcgit-29) which is in Ubuntu official repos, I guess that yes, it's still the case – edison23 Sep 25 '18 at 14:45

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 02 '20 at 03:20

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I figured out a workaround for RDPing into Windows. Create a .rdp file in windows, open it with a text editor, make sure multimonitor is set to 1. Copy it to your Linux system, open with Remmina in windowed mode (not full screen), and connect. In the left pane, click the TOGGLE DYNAMIC RESOLUTION UPDATE, leaving in window stretch to all your display, and voila!

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QwertyChouskie

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answered Apr 01 '20 at 17:17

Steve Jarvis

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '22 at 19:09

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this works in remmina 1.4.25 it is now a simply checkbox

answered Apr 04 '22 at 19:09

Fuseteam

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I'm on Remmina 1.4.26 on manjaro linux and that box isn't there. How peculiar. – emilBeBri Jun 15 '22 at 11:57
that's quite peculiar indeed – Fuseteam Jun 15 '22 at 12:57
I have the box but it still not using both monitors :/ – Emmanouil Chountasis Jun 15 '23 at 08:56
@Emmanouil Chountasisi i don't know what to say, it worked for me – Fuseteam Jun 29 '23 at 01:51
@EmmanouilChountasis, what worked for me was switching from Wayland to xorg as mentioned here – Aelian Sep 03 '23 at 20:07
It work me on wayland if memory serves – Fuseteam Oct 11 '23 at 20:42

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