Here's the scenario:
vnc server - Windows XP
vnc viewer - Linux
When I connect to my vnc server, I am able to see the mouse / keyboard movement at the vnc server from my vnc viewer. For example, when I click on something at the vnc viewer, I see the same thing at the vnc server.
Is there a way to disable the mouse / keyboard movement (i.e. put the vnc server in a 'blank' mode, so that whatever I do on the vnc viewer, it will not be reflected on the server side)? I mean the easiest way would be to just turn off the monitor... but I'm not sure this can be with a laptop.
Its part of the VNC Viewer input options
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/winvncviewer.html#Input
Go to settings on your host, and click on expert. Search for AcceptPointerEvents and set the option to False.
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I'm happily using x2go to connect to a remote Ubuntu Server 16.04 with XFCE installed from my local pc with a local resolution of 1920x1080 on a HiDPI screen (13''). If I run the x2go client from a virtualized Linux (Linux Mint 18.03 with XFCE), everything works well and I can see a really sharp image of the remote desktop. Problem is, when I try to connect directly from Windows 10 the image is blurred and the resolution is wrong. I tried to play around with the x2go client settings but no way, the image is always terrible. I also tried to use PyHoca and different X-servers but the result is the same.
Is it a well-known problem? Any suggestion on how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
I had a very similar problem: A Dell laptop with an Nvidia graphics card, having a resolution of the built-in flat panel of 1280x800. I connected this to an external screen with HDMI with a resolution of 1920x1080. However, X2Go seemed to pick up the resolution of the built-in screen instead of the actual screen, making everything seem blurry (interpolating 1280x800 to 1920x1080).
This is what fixed it for me: Navigate to the C:\Program Files (x86)\X2GoClient\VcXSrv\ directory in Explorer. Select the vcxsrv.exe file and right-click it, choosing Properties from the popup menu. Go to the Compatibility tab, and in the Settings section there, select the option "Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by:" and then select "Application" in the combo-box below.
Restart the X2Go Client to have its X server start with this new setting.
This fix also solved X2Go Windows Client crashes in my setup.
I have basically the same scenario: connecting from a high DPI Windows laptop to KDE on Debian, in my case for Desktop Sharing. The client would connect okay, but display only a portion of the remote host's screen.
Keyboard shortcuts would not scroll the client window.
Any attempt to show more (maximize, go full screen, click-and-drag client window border) would seem to work for a second, then crash.
The Compatibility scaling change fixed the instability - no more crashes, yay! - but did lead to slow repaints as noted by Algeboy.
Upgrading to a newer version of VcXsrv also did not resolve the crashes - Compatibility change still required, but screen repaints are quicker.
To upgrade, download and install the latest VcXsrv in its own directory. Using Explorer or whathaveyou, apply the HiDPI setting to vcxsrv,exe.
Start x2go client but don't start a session. Click Options, Settings, then X.Org Server settings tab. Select "use custom x server". Point to the newly installed vcxsrv.exe and click okay. Restart the x2go client.
This apparently takes the version from 1.20.6.0 supplied by x2go to 1.20.14.0 (2022-04).
Screen refreshes are quicker if I minimize all applications on the host, allowing it to repaint the desktop, then restore whatever I want to work on.
i have this problem to read what i'm typing on my linux server because everything is so small is there by any chance you can customize your display settings on linux server my screen resolution is 3200x1800 [problem][1]
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you have to install vmware tools and then you are able to maximize or go to full screen
check this
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022525
How can I see the window of an app that shows on the second screen of my multi-monitor set-up when I remote in from another computer?
For example:
...on my laptop:
cmd: mstsc /span
rdc display configuration: Full Screen + Use all of my monitors for the remote session
...on the remote computer:
Open GitGUI or FileZilla for example.
Task bar shows application open.
The hover preview shows the app is open.
I can't see the app window on my screen (can't interact with it).
Nothing I do brings the app to a window I can use.
Anyone else come across this problem?
Thanks
Figured it out. Using the Windows key plus the right/left arrows, I can move windows from desktop to desktop.
I'm using cygwin/X-Sever to ssh into several other machines and then open the same control pannels on each machine. Is it possible to color the Top window bar differently for each one? Either using X11 or windows?
Clientside: Win7 - Cygwin
Serverside: Unix & Linux
If you were using Linux as a client, this could be done clientside using a nice window manager like i3 by just applying a different window decoration style based on namespace.
Now because you're using Windows 7 with cygwin, my best guess is that you're using XWin for Xserver. I am not aware of built-in functionality to XWin that would allow you do to this easily client-side. You said you're opening remote "control panels" on each machine, but not if they are GUI or CLI applications.
For CLI applications, you can set the background and foreground colour on a remote xterm session when connecting with startxwin as the Examples section of the man page shows.
For GUI applications, the simplest solution may be to follow what I described in the first paragraph but server-side. Using ssh this would be easy to script, just set a custom window manager theme on the remote host for the application at runtime. Your remote host window manager's documentation should explain how to configure there.
I have installed tightvncserver on my ubuntu system. I know that using a vnc viewer I can control this machine from a remote machine. But I don't want to control this machine remotely. I just want to view what is going on here on the viewer window on a remote machine. e.g. If I open firefox on my machine (in which I've installed tightvncserver), someone else on a remote machine having vnc viewer installed should just be able to see firefox opening in his vnc viewer window. Similarly when I close firefox and open some other application, the same should be visible on the viewer window. Is it possible through VNC?
You can run tightvncserver with the -viewonly Argument.
tightvncserver is a wrapper for xVNC and Takes xVNC Arguments. the viewonly Argument is probably what you're looking for.