On Sunday, November 17, 2013 03:53:14 PM Reco wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:15:02 +0000 > > Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> wrote: > > X could not detect the attached screen because its cable is switched > > across a KVM which seems to destroy the EDID information; I'd already > > manually configured a Modeline for 1440x900. (This works fine on the > > attached screen even through the KVM.) The remote desktop appears to > > be 4x3 shape, and something closer to 800x600, I would guess. > > Vnc4server doesn't (and should not) take into account any EDID. The > entire point of VNC is to be able run even if video card(s) is > physically absent at the host. > Try experimenting with '-screen' and '-dpi' VNC options.
To expand, vncserver creates an X11 server session that uses a virtual video card (in effect). Hence the 'virtual' in 'virtual network computing'. 'vncserver -geometry 1024x300' will create a 1024 wide x 300 high virtual display available via :1; 'vncviewer :1' will dutifully display it in a 1024x300 window (plus trimmings). VNC isn't rdesktop. As far as I know, the viewer can only display the virtual X session. If you had a local X server configured to use a 2x2 matrix of 1920x1080 displays as one logical display, you could have it run vncviewer to display a remote 3840x2160 VNC session fullscreen. (In theory, at least.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201311171629.08146.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
