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How do I use dual monitors with VMware Player on Windows and an Ubuntu Guest?

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I have my VMware Player (v 3.1.4 build-385536) all up and running Ubuntu (11.04) from my Windows (XP SP2) machine, but now I'm getting greedy and want to run Ubuntu on both monitors. I've tried manually setting the display options within the VMware Player settings to 2 to no avail. I've also set it…

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Fix for: How do I use dual monitors with VMware Player on Windows and an Ubuntu Guest?

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After you select two screens from the VMware Player settings, there is a little icon that shows up in the pull down title bar thing that says, "Cycle Multiple Monitors" that you need to click to actually enable the multiple monitors. All is wonderfu…

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