Negotiating server screen size

Pierre Ossman ossman at cendio.se
Thu Sep 17 08:10:48 BST 2009


On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:10:23 +0200
Christophe Lohr <christophe.lohr at cegetel.net> wrote:

> Pierre Ossman a écrit :
> > You can select any resolution you want on the vncviewer command line.
> >   
> Yes, one can gives any resolution to the DesktopSize option of the Tiger
> vncviewer, however only requests of standard resolutions are honored.
> Otherwise the screen is not resized.
> 

Something must be wrong with your build in that case. I've been
actively using it with all kinds of odd sizes.

> > The reason you see a finite set with the xrandr tool is because of the
> > way RandR works. What you see is a default list, but more resolutions
> > can be added.
> >   
> Within the Tiger Xvnc server, the xrandr command gives nothing... no
> resolutions at all.
> 

Same thing here.

What version of TigerVNC are you using? And where did you get the build
from?

Rgds
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