Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Monitor resolution and VNC Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 22:35:30 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2uh8a8-blt.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6oIlEBqCjOm0MjsSUEk5CA"; logging-data="23953"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+w8tCuxx9KFY+LvURF2D5goG40mCEM0M=" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.10 Cancel-Lock: sha1:k7Oaw9ke+oikNPgm+BTtTSYLEX0= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:1117 Robert Heller wrote: > At Mon, 16 May 2011 18:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Clark Smith > 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