Mirroring Displays snd Display Configurator

Last updated: October 30, 2026

Phaze aims to create a connection to another device that feels as local as possible. To do that, Phaze allows the person assigned ownership of a machine to mirror their client displays when connecting. The idea is that Phaze will honor the display settings on the client when creating virtual displays on the host. This will attempt to match the orientation, aspect ratio, resolution, native display scaling (not custom DPI settings), and refresh rate of the client displays. Turn this on in your client settings. The setting is called, "Mirror display layout."

With this, you can set up your displays once per desk, and Phaze handles the configuration. It saves each configuration against the specific monitors connected. Plug back into a setup it’s seen before and your layout comes back without you touching anything.


For example, say you dock your laptop at home with two 4K screens and set them up one way. At the office you dock with two 1080p screens and set them up differently. Phaze saves both. When you get home and plug back into the 4K screens, your home setup is restored automatically. Same at the office. No reconfiguring every time you move. The only difference would be if you open your laptop after docking it the next time you plug in, this will count as a new configuration that you'll have to set up.

Known Limitations on Display Mirroring

How it works

When enabled, the host machine's local monitors are replaced with virtual ones created to match the client's display layout. This blanks and disables the host's local monitors so that stream contents are kept private from anyone in the same room as the host machine, and can also provide displays for Phaze streams to hosts that otherwise have none.  

Once you connect, and the displays have been set up, your client will open each new virtual host display on its matching client display in full-screen if you choose that. You may open and close the windows as you please on the client, but the displays will still remain on the host until you end the stream.

Scaling and HDR

If you have changed your DPI scaling from its default on a client display, this will not currently be mirrored on the associated host virtual display, which will instead default to the appropriate 'native' DPI scaling.  

Additionally, mirroring the HDR capability of your client display is not currently supported.

Closing and re-opening screens

Closing a screen while using Display Mirroring does not remove the associated virtual display from the host machine.

You may re-open a closed screen at any time through the in-session menu by clicking "Open" on the desired screen. This will open the screen in a window on your primary display. If you re-open a screen that was fullscreen at the time it was closed, it may open in fullscreen again on the primary monitor.

Other current limitations

  • Display Mirroring can only handle up to four client displays. Clients with five or more displays will not be able to use the feature currently.