Scaling down for small remote display

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Kenneth Porter

I'm trying to access an application with tall dialogs from a laptop with an
800 pixel display, and the bottom of the dialog extends below the bottom of
the laptop display. When viewed on the RDP server's display running at
1280x1024, the dialog fits fine. Is there some way I can get the laptop to
provide either a scaled or scrollable display that gives me the same
effective resolution as the image the remote user sees?
 
do not use full screen on the desktop client software, rather define the
resoltion of from the slider.. then it will be scrollable

RDP does not support scalling, however VNC does
google for ultravnc
this will give you a free server - client that is scalable.
 
John Jay Smith said:
do not use full screen on the desktop client software, rather define the
resoltion of from the slider.. then it will be scrollable
Click to expand...

I don't get scrollbars. To test, I have a 1600x1200 display on the client.
The server normally operates at 1200x1024. I set the Display tab in the XP
RDP client to 1024x768 and connect. No scrollbars appear in the resulting
window. Is there something else I need to do?
RDP does not support scalling, however VNC does
google for ultravnc
this will give you a free server - client that is scalable.
Click to expand...

I've also got UltraVNC installed (have been using it for some time), but
it's grossly slow compared to RDP. It doesn't seem to be a display issue,
but rather some kind of long lag before updates get sent. The screen
refreshes all at once a few seconds after an input. It seems like something
isn't waking up and flushing the screen update to the client.
 
Create an .rdp file using 1024x768 as the resolution. Save it then edit the
file using Notepad and set the resolution to whatever your real desktop size
is, ie. 1200x1024 or whatever. The parameters to modify are the desktopwidth
and desktopheight parameters. Save the modified .rdp file then click on the
file to start the session with the modified resolution. That works for me
where my desktop PC uses 1152x864 while my client laptop only does
1024x768...

Here is a .rdp file for my desktop as an illustration...This file is on my
laptop client...

screen mode id:i:1
desktopwidth:i:1152
desktopheight:i:864
session bpp:i:24
winposstr:s:0,1,14,12,1008,732
full address:s:Ashtabula
compression:i:1
keyboardhook:i:2
audiomode:i:0
redirectdrives:i:1
redirectprinters:i:1
redirectcomports:i:0
redirectsmartcards:i:1
displayconnectionbar:i:1
autoreconnection enabled:i:1
username:s:Al
domain:s:
alternate shell:s:
shell working directory:s:
disable wallpaper:i:0
disable full window drag:i:0
disable menu anims:i:0
disable themes:i:0
disable cursor setting:i:0
bitmapcachepersistenable:i:1

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Hey!

The resolution is independant of the real
resolution of the actual hardware involved (client and server).

The only limitation is the max resolution that the RDP client can achieve
because
of the way it was programmed ( I dont remember the exact numbers)

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