Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Howard Eisenberger Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Monitor resolution and VNC Date: 22 May 2011 17:39:54 GMT Organization: Gonif Systems, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 22 Message-ID: <93t03aF366U1@mid.individual.net> References: X-Trace: individual.net hoJMr+27D06AKG4UJp6zOAf1xlgcK5cU/EQeWGdN08RjJocNo= Cancel-Lock: sha1:86y+z9waOIP4Sk8kT2aA2GtTQdI= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-AUP: no unsolicited advertising User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:1205 On 2011-05-16, 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? On B 'vncserver -geometry 1920x1080' Regards, Howard E. -- ls -a ~/Desktop/ . ..