Re: Large resolution / dual head?

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From: Oliver Sturm (oliver_at_sturmnet.org)
Date: 08/20/04

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    On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:23:19 +0100, Oliver Sturm wrote:

    > I usually leave my desktop system running and I'd like to use remote
    > desktop connection to access it from my laptop. Now the thing is that my
    > desktop system runs with two monitors, both configured to 1600x1200, while
    > on the laptop there's only one screen which I don't always use at that high
    > a resolution.
    >
    > Now here's my problem: Every time I connect to the desktop remotely, the
    > complete "configuration" of the desktop is destroyed, all windows are
    > pushed into the upper left corner and resized, desktop sidebar undocks
    > itself from the right monitor and appears on the left, icons gather in the
    > upper left part of the left screen and so on... all because it doesn't seem
    > to be possible to configure the remote desktop to simply put a larger image
    > into a smaller window, using scroll bars.

    Is there nobody here who can answer that question? Or do I need to rephrase
    it? Using Remote Desktop every now and then, I really can't understand how
    people do it... the only (theoretical) way seems to be to always make sure
    you use the same resolution on the client as you do on the server (meaning
    the machine you log on to), but then how would you do that? What's more,
    even when using the multi-screen system as the client, there's no way to
    adjust the screen size for the connection to be large enough to log onto
    another multi-screen machine without cluttering the desktop.

    No info on this at all?

                   Oliver Sturm 

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