Re: Monitor resolution and VNC

From	Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Monitor resolution and VNC
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.misc
Date	2011-05-16 22:35 +0100
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Robert Heller wrote:

> At Mon, 16 May 2011 18:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Clark Smith
> <noaddress@nowhere.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I am connecting via VNC from my box A to a server B. On A I have
>> a 1920x1080 display. B has no monitor whatsoever attached to it, but it
>> is running the GDM display manager, and the X window system has started
>> with a default 800x600 resolution.
>> 
>> How can I start X window on B so that when I connect to it from A
>> by VNC the session will be a 1920x1080 one? More precisely, how can I
>> fool B into thinking that it has a 1920x1080 monitor attached to it, so
>> that X window is started with this assumption?
> 
> A Question:
> 
> Why are you running X11 on your *headless server*?  This is a somewhat
> silly waste of resources.
> 
> What O/S is box A running? If box A is running Linux, you don't need to
> mess with VNC at all, instead set up the GDM display manager to accept
> a remote X server connection from box A.  Or even better, just ssh into
> your server and use ssh's X11 forwarding to run X11 applications on the
> server.
> 
+1

Also, even installing graphical utilities on the server may be undesireable 
(install footprints of linux are pretty small if you knock out all the X, 
QT, KDE, GTK and Gnome libs+support).

eg - if the object is to run MySQL admin on the server - don't. Run it on 
the client and connect to the server.

Just an extra 2p's worth :)

-- 
Tim Watts

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Monitor resolution and VNC Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2011-05-16 18:35 +0000
  Re: Monitor resolution and VNC Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-16 13:59 -0500
    Re: Monitor resolution and VNC Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-05-16 22:35 +0100
  Re: Monitor resolution and VNC Howard Eisenberger <howarde@gmx.net> - 2011-05-22 17:39 +0000

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