will remote desktop 'scale'?

From: clyclopedic (nonexist_at_spamless.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:37:43 -0400

My local machine has a 1600x1200 lcd display. I remotely access a desktop
that runs optimally at 1024x768, so I have that set in the .rdp file I use
to connect to it. The remote machine runs an X Windows server, and if I just
connect to it 'full screen' the X server gets all upset because the
resolution changed. It shouldn't work that way, but it does.

So, when I go to full screen mode, the remote machine's display stays the
same size, its just centered in the middle of my 1600x1200 lcd and
surrounded by a lot of black area.

I would prefer it to act like Virtual PC does in full screen mode and scale
the remote/guest machine's display out to fill my local/host machine's
display.

I don't suppose there is a secret register setting or something that will
turn on scaling for me, is there?

Maybe if I ran a 1024x768 virtual machine in Virtual PC on my local machine
and then ran Remote Desktop in that virtual machine, I could let Virtual PC
do the scaling for me. Hmmm..

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