Methinks you are also confused - the browsers (and any other graphical app) are X clients to the X server - they make requests for resources (like geometry) to the X server which may or may not honour them. Otherwise what you say is ok :)
> On 6 Sep 2016, at 18:08, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > >> On 09/06/2016 03:52 AM, Todor Petkov wrote: >> thanks for the fast answer. The machine we are connecting and exporting >> the display, is a virtual machine, which is shared by several members of >> a team. They are travelling and sometimes the connection is not that >> fast, so I am looking for a way to decrease the quality of the exported >> display. For example, rdesktop has options "-g" and "-a", for geometry >> and colour depth respectively. I can not find such option for >> firefox/chrome, so I was looking for another way to control it, probably >> like a shell variable. >> > You are confusing things a bit. Firefox and Chrome are the server side > applications. They don't set the screen size or quality, they use whatever > the X server is set to. And you definitely don't want to be running raw X > protocol over a slow link! That's why you use something like rdesktop (RDP > protocol) or VNC. With both of those, the server side part sets the geometry > (screen size) and the remote user running the vnc or rdp client sets the > quality that it wants. The server reduces the colour depth and compresses > the data before sending it to the client. > > When you start vncserver, you can pass it the "-geometry" option to set the > screen size. For the client side, I use remmina. It handles almost all the > remote viewing protocols and you can set the quality options that you want. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
