I switched to a new notebook a few months back. After the switch, my virtual machines which had always had multi-monitor capability lost this. At the time I was running Workstation Pro 12.5.9. I needed to upgrade anyway, so I didn't worry about the lack of multi-monitor until after the upgrade, but the situation is still the same. When running in full-screen mode with Windows 10 or Windows 7 guests I don't have the multiple monitor selection toolbar, and under the View menu I have no cycle option.
I've been trying to make sense of "Use Multiple Monitors for One Virtual Machine" at https://pubs.vmware.com/ws71_ace27/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ws_user&file=ws_running... but this section won't make it through my grey matter:
On the host, the display settings for monitors must be set in a compatible topology. For example, the left-most monitor cannot be placed lower than any other monitor in the display topology. It does not matter if the monitors have different resolutions or orientations. When entering full screen mode, the monitor that contains the Workstation window cannot be lower than another monitor.
Put another way: When you use the Windows display properties controls, if you select a monitor icon and begin to drag it to a new location, a tooltip displays the coordinates. If a coordinate shown for the new location of the icon is a negative number, that location will not work.
I assume this means physical location, not Windows monitor identification number? How can I tell if a monitor icon is lower? Maybe they had coordinates on a Win7 host, but they don't on Win10 (if I'm even looking at the right set of controls).
What other reasons would the monitor layout toolbar vanish?
I have 3D enabled, and I've tried with and without display scaling. I've tried 'use host setting for monitors' and explicitly setting 3 monitors.
The host is a Dell notebook with Intel/NVIDIA. I've tried explicitly setting NVIDIA for Workstation in the NVIDIA control panel, which made no difference. (The last notebook had the same configuration and didn't need to have the adapter overridden.)
