Allow selection of specific Displays instead of "Use All Displays"

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac Feature Suggestions' started by PhilipH4, Jun 26, 2017.

  1. PhilipH4

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    As a professional user, I often use 3 (or more) displays. It would be extremely helpful if I could have Windows in Full Screen Mode, only use selected specific displays, rather than "all". There are times when I need to keep a window showing Mac desktop and want (need) to reduce the video overhead in Windows. I have tried going in to Windows display manager and telling it not to use a display but find that the setting is largely ignored or results in a very unstable display. I think it would be far better if Windows didn't even know about the display the extra display by having Parallels hide it...
     
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  2. SirCodesALot

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    I've been using PD for some time now and I was wondering if it would be a possibility, like USB devices to select which monitors to use in full screen? My configuration now uses my MacBook Pro opened and I would like my Windows 10 VM to just use 2 Apple Cinema displays in "full screen".

    What do you guys think? Could this be useful to you?
     
  3. MatthewS9

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  4. SachinK1

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  5. Ajith1

    Ajith1 Parallels Support

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    Yes, you can visit our Facebook Page and get support.
     
  6. LeticiaM1

    LeticiaM1 Junior Member

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    Thanks for Facebook support page!
     
  7. SirCodesALot

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    Hi @MariaH5, I was looking into it and it looks like they were able to get it to work with the MultiMonitor tool. Here's there post. I believe you can find the tool here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html

    I personally haven't used this tool, but it seems quite promising so YMMV. I don't have this 3rd monitor configuration at the moment, but that may actually change now that I know about the MultiMonitor Tool.
     
  8. Excelmate

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    I have 3/4 displays, mbp, hp 27" 4k, iPad sidecar or an old small monitor which I use the for monitoring tasks / trello / email etc.
    Main screens for parallels, but I often have to disconnect the sidecar or small screen as MBP starts to freeze or I end up getting resource / RAM errors when testing. I prefer coherence only because I seem to have less issues, but I would rather use full screen with just selected monitors.
     
  9. CraigO4

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    I have (6) 4K monitors (23' Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128GB 2TB SSD) and I do development/cyber work that hosts many VMs simultaneously to support different DevSecOps pipelines. I often develop in different VMs for different reasons and perform cybersecurity assessments on different OS'. I would love to be able to have a different VM in each screen with a main working VM spanned across 2 or 4 screens. I pay enough for a Parallels license every year to not have to download a 3rd party app to support this. Lets make this happen!
     

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