How to scale Display on connection to X11VNC using Guacamole

[brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com>]

My remote connection is via X11VNC to an Ubuntu-MATE desktop.

My X11VNC connections seems limited to 1360x768 at least when I  check
Hardware/Display that is the maximum setting I see available?

I did some searches and found this guacamole "resolution" description

https://glyptodon.org/jira/browse/GUAC-8

but in the Guacamole Connection config I don't see any option to do this?

How is the above configured ?   I'd like to get it to match what the
Guacamole RDP connection can provide with is 2492x1326.

thanks
brian

Re: How to scale Display on connection to X11VNC using Guacamole

[brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com>]

Nick

Thanks I was already aware of most of that but was puzzled why when I even
set a higher resolution in /etc/X11/xorg.conf... the display still stays at
the lowere resolution?

On Karl Runge's (orig author of x11vnc) site there is a ton of great info
including how to dynamically change display from cli w/out restarting
x11vnc.  ( I will try this next).

But from reading the following:

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/faq.html#faq-headless

It would seem what I had already done "should" have worked?

Brian




On Aug 9, 2017 9:50 PM, "Nick Couchman" <ni...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> So, I believe X11vnc is a VNC server designed to mirror a "real" display
> (physical system, for example) of a VNC connection, correct?  If so, it
> likely means that the physical display, and, thus, the X11vnc connection
> was started with a specific resolution, which is probably why you're
> getting that resolution.  1360x768 sounds very much like a not-too-uncommon
> laptop display resolution, although you did say desktop.  Based on some
> quick Google searching, it doesn't look like X11vnc is capable of expanding
> to the display size of the client, since it's copying a physical display.
> It's different from RDP in that regard - it's literally a copy of the
> physical display - RDP locks the physical display and switches over to a
> virtual display when you connect (almost like connecting an external
> monitor to a laptop and then switching over to that external display).
>
> If you absolutely must copy the physical display, I think you're out of
> luck, here.  If you don't care about the physical display, then you could
> start up a VNC server with whatever resolution you want, point it at a
> desktop manager, and accomplish what you're trying to accomplish.  There is
> some support for XRandR in VNC, though I'm not sure how fully it's
> supported, so I don't know that you could get the full resize experience
> you get when you use RDP, e.g. for various client display sizes, etc.
> Maybe someone on the list has better experience with Guacamole, VNC, and
> display resolutions - my experience is limited to RDP and SSH.
>
> -Nick
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, 9:02:59 AM EDT, brian mullan <
> bmullan.mail@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> My remote connection is via X11VNC to an Ubuntu-MATE desktop.
>
> My X11VNC connections seems limited to 1360x768 at least when I  check
> Hardware/Display that is the maximum setting I see available?
>
> I did some searches and found this guacamole "resolution" description
>
> https://glyptodon.org/jira/browse/GUAC-8
>
> but in the Guacamole Connection config I don't see any option to do this?
>
> How is the above configured ?   I'd like to get it to match what the
> Guacamole RDP connection can provide with is 2492x1326.
>
> thanks
> brian
>
>

Re: How to scale Display on connection to X11VNC using Guacamole

[Nick Couchman <ni...@yahoo.com>]

So, I believe X11vnc is a VNC server designed to mirror a "real" display (physical system, for example) of a VNC connection, correct?  If so, it likely means that the physical display, and, thus, the X11vnc connection was started with a specific resolution, which is probably why you're getting that resolution.  1360x768 sounds very much like a not-too-uncommon laptop display resolution, although you did say desktop.  Based on some quick Google searching, it doesn't look like X11vnc is capable of expanding to the display size of the client, since it's copying a physical display.  It's different from RDP in that regard - it's literally a copy of the physical display - RDP locks the physical display and switches over to a virtual display when you connect (almost like connecting an external monitor to a laptop and then switching over to that external display).
If you absolutely must copy the physical display, I think you're out of luck, here.  If you don't care about the physical display, then you could start up a VNC server with whatever resolution you want, point it at a desktop manager, and accomplish what you're trying to accomplish.  There is some support for XRandR in VNC, though I'm not sure how fully it's supported, so I don't know that you could get the full resize experience you get when you use RDP, e.g. for various client display sizes, etc.  Maybe someone on the list has better experience with Guacamole, VNC, and display resolutions - my experience is limited to RDP and SSH.
-Nick

On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, 9:02:59 AM EDT, brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com> wrote:

My remote connection is via X11VNC to an Ubuntu-MATE desktop.
My X11VNC connections seems limited to 1360x768 at least when I  check Hardware/Display that is the maximum setting I see available?

I did some searches and found this guacamole "resolution" description 
https://glyptodon.org/jira/browse/GUAC-8

but in the Guacamole Connection config I don't see any option to do this?
How is the above configured ?   I'd like to get it to match what the Guacamole RDP connection can provide with is 2492x1326.
thanksbrian