[nylug-talk] vnc desktop scaling in ubuntu

[Mike Allred]

I do know it's possible with x11vnc to scale from the server side.  Here's
how I start my server, fwiw:

sudo /usr/bin/x11vnc -httpdir /usr/share/tightvnc-java -httpport 5800
-display :0 -shared -rfbauth /etc/x11vnc.pass -o /tmp/x11vnc.log -forever
-bg -rfbport 5900 -scale 3/4

On Dec 23, 2007 2:16 PM, Christopher Yee Mon <christopher.yeemon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have vnc running on an ubuntu and xubuntu machine and I want to login
> to them from another ubuntu box. I was using the regular Terminal
> Services Client (tsclient), but as far as I can see it doesn't support
> the jpeg compression to make it run faster, so I installed the tightvnc
> java client (tightvnc-java) and it does that but there's nowhere in its
> minimal gui that you can scale the desktop to fit on the screen. The man
> page doesn't have any info, but when I check here
> (http://www.tightvnc.com/doc/java/README.txt) there is a scale option
> but it doesn't seem to take. I tried
>
> jtightvncviewer <address>:0 "Scaling factor" 50
>
> which didn't work, as well as
>
> java /usr/share/tightvnc-java/VncViewer <address>:0 "Scaling factor" 50
>
> which also didn't work. I don't know how the syntax should be to make it
> work.
>
> For now I'm using the xtightvncviewer package which doesn't mention
> scaling in its man page, but which supports the compression and just
> manages to fit on the screen when I maximise the window since it doesn't
> have the toolbar the java viewer has. Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> Christopher
>
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