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Low resolution in remote desktop

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:34 pm
by frozen
I have the all too common problem of a seeing a 640x460 screen when I connect to my headless Mint 6 system via Remote Desktop. When the computer boots and does not see a monitor, it defaults to 640x480 so that's what I see via Remote Desktop. This question has come up in more than one forum but I have not come across a definitive answer. "Edit your xorg.conf" or "use xrandr" have not solved my problem, altho I think xrandr might be the answer if I could just get it to do what the man page implies it should do. At this point I am not going to ask for a simple answer but I would love to have an answer that works. Thanks in advance!

Re: Low resolution in remote desktop

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:36 am
by Husse

Re: Low resolution in remote desktop

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:44 pm
by frozen
Thank you. Unfortunately that does not help. In fact when I run rdesktop -g 1024x768 192.168.1.33 on my client Elyssa machine nothing happens and I don't get my prompt back until I control-c.

It seems to me, keeping in mind that I am still reading up on this, that my problem comes from the server end. The headless, remote machine. Remote desktop just shows me what the desktop of that system looks like, and that stupid thing defaults to 640 x 480. Maybe I should give up on remote desktop and try one of the vnc servers. A little reading suggests these might offer more configuration options.

Thanks again.

Re: Low resolution in remote desktop

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:22 am
by Husse
Just thought of it and got an idea
If you connect a monitor to the screenless and make the maximum use of xorg.conf (every available setting put there) that might force the thing to do better
This is however a known bug not that easy to fix