scale remote screen to window

[pcause]

I have this option set. I'd have expected that this would scale the remote screen to the local window. I get scroll bars instead. Not sure if this is a bug, but if not than I'd make the request for an enhancement to scale the remote screen to the local window.

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[CendioOssman]

The resize option does not scale, no. It tells the server to change the size of the session. Many servers do no support this (in fact, I think only TigerVNC does).

[pcause]

thanks. yes, what I am looking for is having the remote screen, whatever its size, scaled to fit the client window. Just like an image scales when you shrink/expand a window. Thanks for changing title/.status

[dcommander]

I'm not trying to troll this thread, but I wanted to point out that the TurboVNC Server (2.0 and later) also supports the remote desktop resizing feature, which is a useful sanity check if any compatibility problems are suspected.

As far as scaling, our viewers support that, and they can be used with the TigerVNC Server.

[jp-bennett]

@CendioOssman This seems to work perfectly when the server is running on Linux. Is it possible to make this work when a Windows machine is running the server component? Edit: To clarify, I'm primarily asking about resizing remote session to the local window when the server is on windows.

[CendioOssman]

Possibly. But probably only to the fixed resolutions that are already available.

We don't have anyone working on WinVNC though, so it's not really getting much in the way of improvements. You could add an enhancement request though, and maybe put a bounty on it.

[thanatos]

This is so needed. When I connect to my home laptop w/ TigerVNC on my MBP, TigerVNC displays each remote pixel as 2x2 (2x zoom) on the MBP, so the screen is hugely zoomed in and the scrollbaring is just painful. (It seems like some sort of "retina" thing, as if it doesn't think my home laptop — which has a HiDPI screen — has a HiDPI screen.)

[fnJeff]

Agree with the "so needed" comment above. Working from home will be next to impossible since my monitors are smaller than at work. Changing the server resolution only leaves my carefully placed windows half off the screen. Local client scaling would solve this problem.

If I possessed the software skills to do so I would, but I'm a lowly EE whose company IT only supports TigerVNC for all engineering work. So far everything works perfectly, except this one thing.

Have any bounties been offered on this feature? How much would it take to make it happen?

[CendioOssman]

No bounty yet, no. And unfortunately I have no idea what it would take to pique someone's interest. You'll just have to start and see if you get some attention. :)

Note that the bountysource integration is currently broken, so it won't get properly flagged here in github.

[fnJeff]

The reason I asked what it would take is because I had the crazy idea of seeing if there was any possibility of getting my company to pay for it. Not sure how likely that would even be, but without a price tag on getting it done for sure, I can't really even ask the question.

This is probably a stupid question, but I think there are other VNC clients that already support this feature. Do different open source versions of VNC ever share that kind of code with each other? I think it was mentioned above that TurboVNC supports client scaling. I tried using that with whatever server our IT is running (I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think it's TigerVNC server, and I'm not sure how I find out what it is) and it didn't work. Something about unsupported or incorrect authentication or encryption modes. I also tried TightVNC and RealVNC viewers, similar issues. TigerVNC seems to be the only one that supports whatever form of authentication IT has setup on the server, and is the only one that IT will officially support anyway.

But without client scaling, it's practically unusable for my setup when changing between 2 locations with different resolution capabilities. Any help, guidance, or ideas on how it would be possible to get this feature added would be highly appreciated.

[bphinz]

Like DRC's TurboVNC client, the TigerVNC Java client also supports client-side scaling.