Display

Choose how the remote computer’s displays appear on your screens, and adjust the settings of each display, from the Display tab of the Settings panel.

Note

In this page, a screen is one of your own screens, and a display is one of the remote computer’s displays.

Screens

Two choices decide how the remote computer appears on your screens: How you work (One screen or Multiple screens) and Remote displays (Manual configuration or Match my screens). Your choice is remembered for this computer and these screens, but only in the browser you are using. The four combinations are described below.

One Screen with Manual Configuration

The remote computer is shown as it is, in the window you are using, and nothing changes on it. Use the display buttons in the toolbar to switch between the remote displays, or the splitscreen button (All) to see them side by side.

One screen with Manual configuration: one window shows the remote displays as they are

One screen, Manual configuration: one window, the remote displays as they are.

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The toolbar with One screen: one button per remote display, and the splitscreen button (All).

One Screen with Match My Screens

The remote computer gets one display at the size of your screen or window. While Reemo sets this up, the message Setting up your screens is shown.

A Match setting also appears:

  • Screen: the remote display keeps the size of your screen, also outside fullscreen.

  • Window: the remote display takes the size of your window and follows it when you resize it.

One screen with Match my screens: the remote computer gets one display at the size of your screen

One screen, Match my screens: one display at the size of your screen or window.

Multiple Screens with Manual Configuration

Nothing changes on the remote computer, and you decide which remote display appears on which of your screens, in Your screens:

  • Auto: each screen shows one remote display, and the extra displays share the last screen.

  • Manual: place the displays yourself. Drag a remote display onto the screen of your choice. When several displays are on the same screen, they share it side by side, which gives you a splitscreen view.

Each of your screens is shown as a frame. The frame marked this window is the screen where the Reemo window is open, and a screen with no display is marked Not used. To hide a remote display, drop it in the Not shown area. Hidden displays stay listed there: drag one back onto a screen to show it again.

Multiple screens with Manual configuration: the displays are placed by drag and drop

Multiple screens, Manual configuration: you place the displays yourself.

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Multiple screens, Manual configuration: display 1 on screen 1, displays 2 and 3 sharing screen 3, display 4 hidden in the Not shown area, and screen 2 not used.

Multiple Screens with Match My Screens

Click one of your screens in Your screens to use it or not. A used screen is marked Used, and the remote computer gets a display for each used screen, at the size of that screen. Your screens and the remote displays match one for one, so working on the remote computer feels like being in front of it.

Multiple screens with Match my screens: one remote display for each screen used

Multiple screens, Match my screens: one display for each screen used.

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Match my screens: screens 1 and 3 are used, screen 2 is not.

Watch the demonstration (1 min 15)

The video shows manual placement of the displays, the Not shown area, removing a virtual display, the Portrait orientation, and the Used toggle with Match my screens. Your display preferences are kept from one session to the next. Everything it shows is described on this page.

Auto Fullscreen

When enabled, the session enters fullscreen as soon as it starts. With Multiple screens, it does so on every screen used.

Note

With Multiple screens, fullscreen on your other screens requires a click: a Restore fullscreen view? message appears on each of them, and you click Enter fullscreen. Your browser can skip this click if it allows fullscreen for this site. See Automate it with a Chrome policy to configure this automatically for all users through a Chrome enterprise policy.

Displays

Scaling

When enabled, the video is scaled to fit the available area. This is useful if the remote resolution is lower than your local screen, though it may cause some blurriness. For the best result, prefer adjusting the resolution instead of scaling. With Match my screens, scaling is always on.

Display Settings

Select a display in the list to change its settings. Each display shows its name, its resolution, and its refresh rate. The main display is marked PRIMARY, and virtual displays are marked VIRTUAL.

Most users do not need to change these settings.

Note

With Match my screens, the resolution, refresh rate, orientation, and zoom are locked and follow your screens: only Maximum bandwidth can be changed. To change the resolution or the refresh rate, switch to Manual configuration.

  • Resolution: the resolution of the display, for example 1920 × 1080.

    Note

    For the best experience, use a resolution adapted to your local screen.
    If the remote computer’s resolution is too high, this may lead to excessive bandwidth usage and reduced performance.
    If the remote computer’s resolution is lower than your local screen, you will see black borders around the display. To avoid this, adjust the resolution here, or enable scaling.

  • Refresh rate: the refresh rate of the display, for example 60 Hz.

  • Orientation: Landscape or Portrait. Portrait turns the display upright: width and height are swapped, so a 2560 × 1440 display becomes 1440 × 2560. This is useful for a screen placed vertically.

  • Zoom: the zoom level, for example 100 %. It applies to every display.

  • Maximum bandwidth: the most this display can use. You can set a different value for each display. The default value is Auto.

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Display 3 in Portrait orientation: its width and height are swapped.

Virtual Displays

Add or remove virtual displays on the remote computer with the + and - buttons above the list of displays:

  • +: adds a virtual display. Up to 5 virtual displays are supported. A new virtual display is always placed to the right of the previous display.

  • -: removes a virtual display.

Note

Availability depends on the remote computer’s operating system:

  • Windows: requires the virtual display driver to be installed. If it is not installed, the buttons are marked Driver required. Follow the instructions in the Virtual Displays section to install it.

  • macOS: supported natively, no driver installation needed.

  • Linux: supported with no extra installation on Intel and AMD graphics, within the limit of the free outputs of the graphics card. On NVIDIA graphics, Reemo uses the free ports of the card under some conditions, or the EVDI module. See the Virtual Displays section.

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