Monday, September 23, 2013

Rescale VNC Session: XRandr

If you use the same vnc session from different computers with different screen sizes/resolutions, you may have wondered how to rescale the session such that it exactly fits the screen in full-screen mode. Following shows how using xrandr

Start your session with different possible resolutions you expect to be using

vncserver -geometry 1440x900 -geometry 1920x1200

Now connect to the session from your favorite vnc client. Once connected, launch a terminal and run the following command to view the available resolutions.

xrandr

Switch to the desired resolutions using the following (put in the desired resolution instead of 1920x1200)

xrandr -s 1920x1200

Have fun.