#Remote desktop full screen resolution windows#

Thinking it was clearly a client problem, I then did combination 4, rdesktop to a Windows XP RDP-server and rdesktop is actually capable of resolution scaling, because it worked (unexpected though). This seems to be confirmed when I connected with MS Terminal Server Client (standard RDP-client in Windows) from a Windows XP installation to the vbox RDP-server (combination 3): that client did change the client resolution. Ubuntu/rdesktop -> Windowx XP RDP-server: resolution scaling worksĪt first, I was thinking it was a RDP-client problem, because both rdesktop and tsclient (combinations 1+2) did not do the resolution scaling. Windows/mstsc -> vbox RDP-server: resolution scaling worksĤ. Ubuntu/tsclient -> vbox RDP-server: no resolution scalingģ.

Ubuntu/rdesktop -> vbox RDP-server: no resolution scalingĢ. It seems that my problem has to do with the fact that the vbox RDP-server does not respond to the requested resolution by the client.ġ. Normally RDP should work like this: the client requests for a certain screen resolution (fullscreen or defined width/height), the RDP-server responds by actually change the resoluton server-side. The only way to control the client-side resolution is to change the resolution in the session it self (right click on Desktop, Properties, etc.). The actual resolution is the resolution on the server it self (this is the same if the session is displayed locally by the vbox manager). Although this succeeds, the client-side resolution can *not* be controlled by the rdp-client (rdesktop) through several commandline options. I'm connecting with rdesktop through the builtin RDP-server in VirtualBox to a Windows session.

Remote desktop full screen resolution