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I'm using Parallels for the Mac, but this may be relevant to other VMs too.

Using Ubuntu 14.04, when I login using Unity it resizes the screen and uses all available screens (2 in my case), perfect. However, I'd rather use i3wm, but when I login, it doesn't resize the screen (it's stuck on 1024x768), and doesn't use my extra monitor.

Not sure if this is a i3 thing or a Parallels/VM thing, or both.

damien
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Tim Macfarlane
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    Did you read the instructions on [Multiple monitors](http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#multi_monitor) in the i3 documentation? If this doesn't help, it might still be a good idea to add the output of `xrandr` (when using i3wm and maybe when using Unity) to your question. – damien Jul 11 '14 at 15:28

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Depending on your xrandr you could use this api to use multiple monitors, as damien said you the better way to solve this situation is using :

xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --left-of LVDS1

asuming that your first screen is LVDS1 and you want to use your VGA1 port.

--auto

is for autodetection of recommended resolution.

c1b3r
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The solution proposed from this wiki worked for me:

xrandr &> /dev/null
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bsrdjan
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  • Link of the wiki was dead. Found more info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/parallels – Melle Nov 08 '16 at 09:01