Dual Monitors + Remote Desktop

Is this to complicated for Multiplicity?

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I'm hoping Multiplicty may be the solution I have been looking for, but I'm wondering if I have too complicated of a set for it.

I have three computers:

A laptop (primary machine) using its own LCD panel + an external LCD panel to run in dual monitor mode with my desktop spread across the two.

A big tower machine connected to the same external LCD panel as the laptop through a different connection (DVI, the laptop uses the VGA port). 90% of the time I Remote Desktop into the tower and access it "through" the laptop. The other 10% of the time I switch the external LCD panel to use the DVI port an run the tower with an attached keyboard and mouse.

A small desktop with its own keyboard, monitor and mouse.

I'm wondering if Multiplicity will be able to replace the keyboards and mice for the tower and the small desktop? If it can I imagine it working something like this -

When the laptop is using both it's panel and the external LCD, moving the mouse off the left side will switch the keyboard and mouse to the monitor attached to the small desktop. The other 10% of the time when I need to be directly on the tower too, moving the mouse to the left would go to the tower first (on the external LCD) then to the small desktop if I continue to move to the left.

I'm betting this won't work exactly as I hope because Multiplicty won't know whether I've got the external LCD on the VGA port (laptop) or DVI (tower). Will it?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hello Bob1o,

I have just brought this to the attention of our technical support. They will get back with us as soon as possible.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Bob1o: Multiplicity will handle most of what you're looking for.

If you're running a dual monitor system and one of those monitors is shared with something else, you were correct in assuming that Multiplicity will not know that you actually had the monitor switched to DVI. What will happen is Multiplicity goes off the setup that Windows currently has. From your laptop's perspective, it's currently using a dual monitor system, whether the shared monitor is on VGA or DVI mode.

If you set up Multiplicity like this (with your systems physically aligned in the same way):

[Small Desktop]__[Big Tower]__[Laptop]
  -Secondary-     -Secondary-  -Primary-

and you have the monitor set to DVI mode. Moving your mouse from the laptop screen to the external monitor screen (that is currently displaying the Big Tower), your mouse will "disappear" for an additional length of that shared monitor because Multiplicity still thinks you're using a dual monitor setup on your laptop. Once you've moved over to the 'Big Tower' or the 'Small Desktop', you're free to use the mouse and keyboard as you would from your laptop though.

Hopefully this has helped. If you have any additional questions, please let us know.

-Mike
[Stardock Support]

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