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| From | Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Monitor resolution and VNC |
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| Date | Mon, 16 May 2011 22:35:30 +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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